Ubuntu vs Freespire

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 19:03:55 UTC 2006


> I think the issue is that the kids learn to use office in school. How close
> the openoffice functionality is to the ms office functionality, the
> interface isn't quite the same.

I understand your situation, but I wonder why kids are taught MS
Office at school.

When people study to be a carpenter, they are not taught to use hammer
brand XYZ, but any hammer in general. The problem with MS Office is
that nearly everyone out there believe it's a hammer when, in fact, is
a hammer brand MS. There are other office suites brands, like
OpenOffice.org, but...

People should be taught to use any kind of tool, not tools from just a
single brand. Else, when brand XYZ disappears, there will a lot of
people that will have to re-learn what they already learnt in the
past. What a waste of time.




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