Re: [Staffslug] OpenOffice in schools

Sadly it's not quite as easy as asking the school to support an open standard. Most school IT policy is formulated by a bunch of suits that form a section of the LEA (Local Education Authority). It's these guys that need to learn the lesson. The trouble is deals get made. I'm not talking shady, under the counter stuff here just basic "buy these PC's and this server and we'll throw in X copies of Win XP/Vista together with X amount of copies of MS Office." This is money men not IT professionals, all they see is that they 'think' they are getting a bargain and so they go for it. Tell them about Linux and they think something is dodgy when you tell them it is free. The few schools that have some level of control of their IT budget are often too scared to go down the open source route because the main IT support tell them that they will not support anything other than MS products.... -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire