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Re: New to the group


From: Hilaire Fernandes
Subject: Re: New to the group
Date: 08 Apr 2002 12:21:36 +0200

le sam 06-04-2002 à 12:03, Christian Selig a écrit :
> Kristian A. Rink wrote:
> 
> > As Joerg Tauss (who I am, despite his other political
> > works, at least appreciating for his dedication to Free Software usage in
> > German government) stated on Chemnitz LinuxTag some weeks ago: "It's hard
> > to understand why German schools should do free-of-charge product training
> > for a company like Microsoft",
> 
> 
> The situation is even worse. There is a Microsoft/Intel partner project 
> "Lernen für die Zukunft" (Teaching for the future), which consists of 
> training materials for MS Windows and MS Office and cheap copies. It is 
> even supported by politicians who view Microsoft as an innovative 
> company with great products. With this initiative, Microsoft tries to 
> secure itself a long-lasting monopoly on the school sector.


Producing free multilingual training materiel for free production
software as Evolution, OpenOffice, KOffice, Gnumeric, The Gimp may help
a lot. It will help to convince people using free software

May be could spend some energy there. We should have some reflexion on
how to achieve that.

Hilaire




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