Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

Because most households in israel do not buy their office...

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.

Ez
On Feb 5, 2012 9:12 AM, "Nadav Har&apos;El" <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 05, 2012, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Preparing to
> convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats":
> > Hi Boaz,
> > The time is not ripe. Don't waste your energy. Your school principal
> > will not know what you are talking about and will dismiss you as a
> > hopeless geek.
>
> I am not sure about the time not being ripe.
>
> In the last year, I installed for two non-technical family members a
> copy of OpenOffice (one a full fledged Linux, but the other a compromise
> Windows+OpenOffice).
>
> They both faced a few hardships when people sent them Microsoft Office
> documents and they didn't look exactly as expected, but I was able to
> convince them that it was in fact the other person who is behind the
> times ;-) And the documents *were* readable, even if didn't look
> perfect.
>
> And for users, this is a saving of 500 shekels (last time I checked).
> I don't see how this fact can be ignored in Israel after the summer's
> protests. This is actually the reason why I installed OpenOffice in
> these two cases - it's hard to justify adding 500 shekels to the price
> of a computer which cost around 1000 shekels (plus a few hundred more
> for the legal Microsoft Windows).
>
> > A slightly more productive line might be to claim that you are no
> > longer using desktop computers - only mobile devices, and for these
> > you need either PDF or Google docs.
>
> I believe my Android can read Microsoft Office documents out of the
> box :( But it's true, with all these non-Microsoft devices around,
> Microsoft's stranglehold on the word processor document seems to be
> coming to an end.
>
>
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> 2012,
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