On 14 May 2011 17:56, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ian et al > > Le 2011-05-14 07:29, Ian Lynch a écrit : > >> Whilst certification seems a good strategy, what about parental power >>> being exerted upon schools? One would imagine that if parents >>> (espcialy of low income families) were aware of free software, they >>> would implore schools to follow suit. >>> >>> >> How do you get to those parents? Through the schools? ..Wait, isn't it the >> schools that are not ready to change? >> >> See the problem? >> >> >> If we want to get LibreOffice accepted at school level we need to make > sure that our product has a solid reputation for network install and > support. Incremental update capability would also have to be part of the > package. > > Totally agree with this. OOo had some severe problems in the early days simply because it was not easy to install across hundreds of machines on a network. All schools tend to be organised on networks so installations will be hundreds of a machines at a time which is good and a real incentive to make it easy to maintain. Not sure of the situation now. Could it be improved?
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