Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

Yes, indeed I'm a Canadian living in Toronto and a student in the TDSB.

Sadiq S
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

> Le 2010-10-17 19:27, Sadiq Saif a écrit :
>
>  Price may be one marketing point, though this may be offset by training
> > and
> > support costs. But we must keep in mind the huge amount of mind share that
> > MS Office has build up over the years. People are too used to Office and
> > how
> > it works. In fact even if LibreOffice is better (we hope) than MS Office,
> > we
> > still won't see a widespread adoption of LibreOffice or FOSS software for
> > that matter. I am pretty sure that big school boards like the TDSB have
> > contracts with Microsoft as well.
> >
> > Sadiq S
> > mailto: sadiq.9541@gmail.com
> > Blog: www.staticsafe.me
> > Twitter - www.twitter.com/staticsafe
> > Facebook- www.facebook.com/static.safe
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Marc Paré<marc@marcpare.com>  wrote:
> Thanks for the note Sadiq. Yes, the training and support costs could be a
> problem if LibO does not have the infrastructure to take care of a "general
> use" help desk type of mailist. But so far, the user mailist on OOo has been
> great. Our new LibO user mailist is new and is just started to attract
> attention from users. We just have to market it properly.
>
> BTW, you speak of large boards like the TDSB. Are you Canadian?
>
> Marc
> Waterloo, Canada
>
>
>
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