Ubuntu vs Freespire

Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.bell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 20:28:26 UTC 2006


On 8/24/06, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> Steve Barnhart said...
> > Umm except for the fact that all hammers are basically the same. There
> > may be many kinds of software that when it comes down to it, is used
> > to do the same thing, but does it differently. What exactly should the
> > kids be taught then? Just grammar? Tools that every wordproccessor
> > should have?
>
> Top-posting is an example of poor communication skills.
>
> Discuss.

*points below*

So is failing to trim entire paragraphs of quoted email that's not
relavent to your point.  I'm "failing to trim it" here because it *is*
relavent to my point.

> > On 8/23/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> --
> Best,
> Marc
>
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Chris

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