Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Boaz Rymland]

Hi all,

I'm about to meet my daughter's school principal on the subject of the
formats of documents the school spreads around routinely, like the weekly
schedule. In short - they are using .DOC MS Word format and I don't like it
as I cannot cleanly open those documents on my computer (which runs Ubuntu).

Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the years
most of them - still I prefer having a refreshment of all the arguments in
favor of moving to more open or at least affordable (e.g. PDF) document
formats.

Any pointers/text will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Boaz.
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