2009/2/8 Vinothan Shankar <neversaymon...@googlemail.com>: > I've created a petition to the Prime Minister to make the primary OS in > schools free and open source - it can be found at > http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools. To anyone that points > out I should have suggested Ubuntu for Education, the first submission > did, but was rejected on the grounds that it was "promoting commercial > products or services". The petition should probably also have pointed > out that schools could keep the same hardware, but petitions there are > restricted to 1000 characters including spaces. > > Please sign.
I don't think I will sign. Simply, I don't think that schools should teach how to use MS Office or OpenOffice. What they should teach is how to use a spreadsheet and a word processor. A selection should then be made available and the students allowed to get a feel for different methods. This will encourage them to realise that there is more than one way to do it. The bottom line is, I don't like OpenOffice being locked out and would rather see schools use it alongside other alternatives including MS Office and even LaTeX. -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
