On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 12:24, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:56, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > Ian Laurenson wrote: > > > I would really like to hear: > > > * What barriers you see that are preventing a greater uptake of OOo. > > > > The Ministry of Education spending millions of *our* money to give > > schools MS Word for free. If schools had to pay for MS Word, they would > > be fleeing to OOo in droves. > > > > * Anything else you think I should know or do. > > Ask the Minister of Education why he blew that $30 million of our money on > m/s > licences, and make sure the rest of NZ hears you ask the question. I suspect > you will get some evasive answer to the effect that T. Mallard Esq. (sic) is > no longer in charge of schools. > > For school use Solaris and OOo would be a far better and cheaper option. I > suspect that Sun might equip a small country's schools for free, The > publicity would be worth umpteen million to them. > I am working on getting such questions asked in the house. At the moment I am pursuing this through my contacts with the Green Party. Does anyone have other contacts, other suggestions (letters to the editor perhaps?), to get this question being asked more pervasively?
Thanks, Ian
