web kracked wrote: > Does this mean that these schools are paying for MS Office when they > already had the government pay for StarOffice? Which could read/write > MS formats except the new .docx format??? - which most people I know > hate. > > Ever think about taking this waste of money to the School board or to the > people who pay the taxes to pay for the TWO licences - with one > banned by having the other??? > > If I had my area's schools StarOffice licences, I would put up a fight to > pay for $200-$500 per machine MS Licences. Thats 500-600 PC at > what? 120,000 or more for software we do not need? > How much other supplies and books could that pay for? > > T.L. - Elmira, New York, USA > OpenOffice.org freely chosen world not Microsoft's > manditory-chained-forever world. >
I don't know the details of either license and don't live in that area. However, I have sent an email to the Premier of Ontario, along with the Minister of Education and a couple of others advising them of this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
