Its only in the discussion stages although the principles are agreed. (This is inside info ;-) ) It could be months before a press release because of the speed government bureaucracy works but I'll let you know as soon as I know.
--- Lars D. NoodÃn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Lars D. NoodÃn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:36:03 -0400 (EDT) To: OOo marketing list <[email protected]> Subject: [Marketing] OOo sponsorship of schools (was: Au Miniconf) Is there a URL for a press release? It would be helpful as a model. On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Ian wrote: [snip] > In principle there is agreement to count OOo as sponsorship with the same > value as the equivalent MS licences which means schools using OOo will help > trigger up to 500k dollars in additional funding. [snip] Also, there is a Norwegian translation of OOo. Perhaps, folks there could leverage Ian's letter in conjunction with this incident: "Microsoft Norway may be probed." Aftonposten. 21 Apr 2005. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article1023195.ece -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents harm all Net-based business, write your MEP: http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
