shameless. wow

Non of these would be valid points if public schools were to use Open Office as a standard instead of Mirco$oft bloatware.

The most consistent arguments they were able to make were that the staff was "unfamiliar" with the product and being conveniently incompatible with a closed-source proprietary software.

The teacher quote that graded student's work lower because of compatibility issues was disgusting.

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First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I think MS is around the last comma in that sentence. As always, they are too slow to react.

For straight-forward writing, I've actually found google docs to be rather useful, it has near instant saving, and its basically available from any computer with connection. Sure, its not a "fully functional" office suite, but seriously, 99% of us use 99% of all that never.*

So, I say we keep insisting on Open solutions, I've found that OO is fast becoming just as common and standard as MS.

*keep in mind that 74% of all statistics are 35% made up

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