Because most households in israel do not buy their office... It would be stupid to assume they do. Moreover - the school headmaster does not assume that either. He/she knows most people just "have" their office installed, and they care nothing about it.
Ez On Feb 5, 2012 9:12 AM, "Nadav Har'El" <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Preparing to > convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats": > > Hi Boaz, > > The time is not ripe. Don't waste your energy. Your school principal > > will not know what you are talking about and will dismiss you as a > > hopeless geek. > > I am not sure about the time not being ripe. > > In the last year, I installed for two non-technical family members a > copy of OpenOffice (one a full fledged Linux, but the other a compromise > Windows+OpenOffice). > > They both faced a few hardships when people sent them Microsoft Office > documents and they didn't look exactly as expected, but I was able to > convince them that it was in fact the other person who is behind the > times ;-) And the documents *were* readable, even if didn't look > perfect. > > And for users, this is a saving of 500 shekels (last time I checked). > I don't see how this fact can be ignored in Israel after the summer's > protests. This is actually the reason why I installed OpenOffice in > these two cases - it's hard to justify adding 500 shekels to the price > of a computer which cost around 1000 shekels (plus a few hundred more > for the legal Microsoft Windows). > > > A slightly more productive line might be to claim that you are no > > longer using desktop computers - only mobile devices, and for these > > you need either PDF or Google docs. > > I believe my Android can read Microsoft Office documents out of the > box :( But it's true, with all these non-Microsoft devices around, > Microsoft's stranglehold on the word processor document seems to be > coming to an end. > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 5 > 2012, > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |It's fortunate I have bad luck - > without > http://nadav.harel.org.il |it I would have no luck at all! > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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