> From: Richard A. O'Keefe [mailto:ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz]
> 
> I'm rather upset that our government spent 10 million dollars buying
> Windows XP and related software for schools when (a) a lot of schools
> here have Macintoshes, and (b) Linux and StarOffice are 
> available free,
> gratis, and for nothing.  Doubtless someone who wants to boycott Sun
> would be happy that the "owners" of StarOffice "lost a sale", but they
> wouldn't have got any money for it, and haven't really "lost" a cent.
> (StarOffice is now OpenOffice.)

Here's a story I saw yesterday about XP:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7098-2001Dec20.html


Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken


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