On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Scott Kokotovitch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Clarence has obtained MAR licenses for MS Office from W.I.T.S., which is >> another new thing, in the past we just used OO. So we will have legal >> licenses for the adults, for their OS and for the Office suite. > We'll have legal licenses, but how does everyone feel about sending > the adults out with Office instead of OpenOffice.org? On the one hand, > promoting free & open source software is a good thing, on the other > hand, adults are more likely to need skills with MS Office for > employment.
You could make a case either way. The other point in favor of going with MS is that we are using it as a revenue stream. Although we can't charge for the computers under the MAR program we can charge for the class and offer the computer for free. $50 (class) - $5 (license) - $0 (computer) = $45 profit. Ya can't do that with OpenSource. Regards, - Robert
