Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Paid developers

On 14 May 2011 17:56, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> 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?


Cheers
> Marc
>
>
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