Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Meir Michanie]

Another issue is that at schools the kids are asked to use a site
named 'ofek' which it doesn't run under linux and my kids are force to
run windows in vmware,...
another site that kids have access for free if they login through ofek
is brainpop.
It's hard to explain to your kids to suffer their lack of access to
those site for a noble purpose of using OSS.


2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland <boaz.rymland at gmail.com>:
> 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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