On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 15:36 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > A single elementary school in the UK will have 200 computers. A > secondary school will have 3500.
Think my training has gone wrong here! An elementary school would typically have 50 computers, a secondary 250 with some around 500. FE Colleges might have as many as 3500. > We have several schools and university > departments signing. We got signatures from some institutions (which > were checked) that have over a thousand computers. > > > Can I sign and say I have 100,000 computers? > > For such a high number you will have to contact the webmaster and we'll > do some checks. > > > Is there any checking up on these claims? > > Yes. There are 3 people checking claims. Especially the big ones. We are > doing a very thorough quality assurance. > > > I actually do have like > > 20 computers, not all of them work - some are handhelds from the 90s. But I > > can count them, right? > > No. You should only count computers capable of running MS Office. Actually it arguable MS products since that proves you are a MS customer. But its only an order of magnitude calculation, its not likely to reach every single MS customer who if informed about ODF would want it. So whatever the figures settle out at they are likely to be only a small part of the actual demand. > This is a huge waste of time. And it's only going to make ODF look more > > desparate for publicity. > > Over 1,000 people disagree with you :-) So far and its only been going a couple of days. Go on Chad, do the right thing, sign the petition :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
