[wellylug] Schools not renewing MS office licences

[Alex Thomson]

Richard Hector wrote:
> 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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So diplomatic... and probably correct :)   However I doubt whether be 
bothered to do any research beyond a cursory glance at the the website 
before making his "uneducated" comments


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