Nope - it'll not happen because the software is free. The whole MS/schools deal thing came around because the incumbent political party want something to show "hey we just spend $xx million on YOUR kids"
They don't get the votes for helping give away free stuff. -----Original Message----- From: Warren Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2005 2:05 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org SI contact person The MoE needs to do more to supply schools with OOo CD-ROMs and support the uptake of open-source software. Perhaps they could negotiate a deal to get star office + support and provide it free to schools along with the "free" apple software and "free" Microsoft Software, It would also allow the teachers to hand out OOo CD-ROMs to students so they can have the same software (and same version of that software) at home. --Warren. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:42:17 +1300, Ian Laurenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
