New Zealand Government decides in favour of NeoOffice for Apple Computers within education.
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/?q=node/81 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10442388 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10442422 NeoOffice is a derivative of OpenOffice designed to work on Apple computers. This articles is discussed on slashdot but often becomes side tracked. Perhaps Nandor Tanczos and Steve Maharey have been talking.
Interesting.. I'd heard a bit about it on Radio NZ recently.. I'm glad they've decided to train kids on a "process", rather than a particular application :) D
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:36 +0200, David Young wrote:
Interesting.. I'd heard a bit about it on Radio NZ recently.. I'm glad they've decided to train kids on a "process", rather than a particular application :)
Here are some excerpts from the program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RmA7_F-Aao In particular it is interesting that sentiment is clearly towards disestablishing Microsoft Office from all student computers in three years; not just Macs.
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