[wellylug] Schools not renewing MS office licences

Richard Hector richard at walnut.gen.nz
Tue May 29 11:56:28 NZST 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:46 +1200, Alex Thomson wrote:
> Anybody caught this this morning?
> 
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/4076857a28.html
> 
> Summary:
> Govt. is not renewing some MS office licenses on around 80 school Macs, 
> saying "use NeoOffice" (mac OO.o equivalent) and save taxpayers $2.7M.  
> That's the good news- the bad news is the principal featured is an 
> idiot: "That's not the sort of software we should be expecting kids in 
> New Zealand to be using.".   Grrrrr

s/an idiot/uneducated/

Richard





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