[wellylug] Schools not renewing MS office licences

[Rimu Atkinson]

the media always needs to find a dissenting voice, so they can be 
'balanced' in their reporting.

.... even if the dissenter is in a tiny minority, such as in the global 
warming 'debate'.

R

Alex Thomson wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>
> 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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