<p>Because most households in israel do not buy their office...</p>
<p>It would be stupid to assume they do. Moreover - the school headmaster does not assume that either. He/she knows most people just "have" their office installed, and they care nothing about it. </p>
<p>Ez</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2012 9:12 AM, "Nadav Har&apos;El" <<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats":<br>
> Hi Boaz,<br>
> The time is not ripe. Don't waste your energy. Your school principal<br>
> will not know what you are talking about and will dismiss you as a<br>
> hopeless geek.<br>
<br>
I am not sure about the time not being ripe.<br>
<br>
In the last year, I installed for two non-technical family members a<br>
copy of OpenOffice (one a full fledged Linux, but the other a compromise<br>
Windows+OpenOffice).<br>
<br>
They both faced a few hardships when people sent them Microsoft Office<br>
documents and they didn't look exactly as expected, but I was able to<br>
convince them that it was in fact the other person who is behind the<br>
times ;-) And the documents *were* readable, even if didn't look<br>
perfect.<br>
<br>
And for users, this is a saving of 500 shekels (last time I checked).<br>
I don't see how this fact can be ignored in Israel after the summer's<br>
protests. This is actually the reason why I installed OpenOffice in<br>
these two cases - it's hard to justify adding 500 shekels to the price<br>
of a computer which cost around 1000 shekels (plus a few hundred more<br>
for the legal Microsoft Windows).<br>
<br>
> A slightly more productive line might be to claim that you are no<br>
> longer using desktop computers - only mobile devices, and for these<br>
> you need either PDF or Google docs.<br>
<br>
I believe my Android can read Microsoft Office documents out of the<br>
box :( But it's true, with all these non-Microsoft devices around,<br>
Microsoft's stranglehold on the word processor document seems to be<br>
coming to an end.<br>
<br>
<br>
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Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 5 2012,<br>
<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a> |-----------------------------------------<br>
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<a href="http://nadav.harel.org.il" target="_blank">http://nadav.harel.org.il</a> |it I would have no luck at all!<br>
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