Yes, of course it means discrimination. Microsoft pays a lot of money and makes a lot of lobby, not only in USA, but in some other countries where this "lobby" is illegal. They give free computers and software to high schools and provide free manuals. They also offer some benefits to the teachers to make them like teaching Microsoft's products. Why should someone bother to teach Linux for free with no benefits. This is now, but after more years, those kids will know only Microsoft's products, and this is what they will choose. I hope Linux will be more friendly one day, and I hope it will beat Windows, but for this to happen, I hope it will appear more games for Linux, more viruses, software that it is not open source, pirated software, etc. This means that a lot of people are interested in it. Now, why to import an excel spreadsheet into another applications that nobody knows to use it? Let's say a guy knows to use the spreadsheets under Linux very well. How many companies do you think it will employ him? Most of the companies won't employ him, because they know that they will need to install Linux, and the other employees don't know to use it And Linux is harder to learn and that company don't want to spend a lot of time, so to get a job, that guy needs to learn what most of the people use. And that is Windows. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <slingshooter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:40 AM Subject: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux > I think the best approach to tell them was did they know you can import Word > and Excel 2000 documents in Star Office 6.0 with Star Writer and Starcalc? > Oh, and then of course resave them in Microtrash format when done editing > it. Shows stupidity. However, they do have a point there. > Every college I've went into as a class requirement you must use MS Word, MS > Excel, MS access or they flunk you. sounds like descrimination to me. Why > not Wordperfect, Quatro pro, Star Writer, etc? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
