[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

[Brian Stanaland]

My high schooler is stuck in a basic computer class and when they do
some new function in class using Office he pipes up with how to do it
in OOo. My kids have done every class assignment they've ever had in
OOo and, if a soft copy is required, saved it in MS format. Never had
a problem.

--Brian

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Ah, but you just hit the nail on the head.  The users already know how
> to use MS/Excel because that's what they've already been exposed to.
> They don't have the time to learn something new; they need to get off
> the ground running.
>
> Let's start training our younger people in Linux and OOo and then the
> next generation of workers will have a choice!
>
> -derek
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