[wlug_org] [POL] Resellers understanding of 'free' licences.

[Ian Beardslee]

May I suggest to all that if things are political and/or evangelising in 
an email that they put a [POL] in the Subject so that (as Brent puts it) 
the people that find those types of topics offensive can make a simple 
rule to remove them from their inbox.


-----Original Message-----
From: Wood Brent <>
To: wlug_org@lists.naos.co.nz
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:32:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [wlug_org] [POL] Resellers understanding of 'free' licences.


> Summat that interests me is the "free" computer training courses
> through
> Warehouse Stationary (& others). These are universally for MS Office, &
> I'd
> like to see some alternatives for "Word processing & spreadsheet"
> courses
> instead. It is hand in hand with takeup of the software in the
> corporate world,
> but is an area the Linux/OS community is able to contribute something. 

I worked for several years running a polytech network and found that they 
were churning out people that would follow steps ... the Step 1, Step 2, 
Step 3 ... umm - can't do Step 3, everything is different!!

Teaching a general computing course should be about the process and 
developing the ideas and concepts not about a specific program. 
Spreadsheets should mean do it in Excel, OpenOffice, Quattro Pro, Works 
etc.

But then I can be a self-centred opinionated bastard :-)

Of course if someone is doing an Excel course because that is what they 
require at work then that has to be done.