Michael Adams wrote: > Reply inline > > On Saturday 24 April 2010 08:42, FISHER II, WILLIAM wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> We are a school District and have the same economic woes as everyone >> else. We need to trim some of the fat from our licensing of >> another office product. To satisfy the licensing coordinator for our >> school district, what copy of a license can I show her to satisfy the >> licensing requirements to load OpenOffice 3.2 to 37 school sites. >> > > Information about OpenOffice.org licenses is available here: > http://www.openoffice.org/license.html > > The LGPL license of the program is intended to allow you many freedoms. > Essentially you can download, share and use the program for free on as many > computers as you wish in both business and home environments. This makes it > ideal for an educational environment as the program can be given away on USB > stick or CD to both teachers and students so that everybody has the same > program. > > In fact the majority of the license deals with the freedoms and restrictions > that apply to programmers that wish to change the source code of the program. > > OpenOffice.org saves by default in the open International ISO/IEC standard > ODF > XML based formats[1][2] but the user may change the default formats to the > closed binary .DOC, .XLS and .PPT if desired. It also supports some measure > of the open OOXML[3][4] XML standard (DOCX etc.). Open XML formats are > desired by many governments and government departments now over closed binary > save formats[5][6][7]. Please note Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 currently > support an orphan, legacy version of the OOXML standard that is to be phased > out[8][9]. > > Some retraining will be required in the migration of any business from > Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org. However generally the retraining is less > from Office 2003 to OpenOffice.org than it is to Office 2007 with the ribbon. > Documentation supporting this migration is available here[10]. [snip good info]
Additional information that may be helpful: <http://about.openoffice.org/index.html> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments> <http://why.openoffice.org/why_edu.html> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project> Also, keep in mind that OpenOffice.org is multiplatform; it can be used on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. <http://download.openoffice.org/other.html> That means that your school district could even eventually migrate to free opensource linux operating systems as well. Additionally, you needn't worry about whether your students (or staff) are using bootleg/illegal copies of Microsoft Office in order to complete their school assignments/work. Note: you have been cc'd on this response as you posted to an OpenOffice.org mailing list. Please reply only to [email protected] Additional information regarding this public mailing list is available here: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
