Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Feb 8, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> This is a perfect time to explain:
> 1) They cannot have everything they want
> 2) Life is unfair
> 3) Some people (the management of that site) are irresponsible and  
> hurt others
>
> That is how my 5 and 3 year old daughters would hear it in this  
> situation.



I see it differently. Not because I like it, or agree with it, but  
because I am a cynic and believe the Israeli mindset to be different.  
I see it that they will say that they have a limited budget and the  
cost of providing the service to Windows users is something they must  
do, but to pay the extra money for FOSS support is a losing bet, as  
they don't know if anyone uses it, and they can use Windows (and M/S  
products) instead.

If they want to make their service more accessible, then they would  
spend what little money they have on iPod/iPhone/iPad apps and  
possibly Android ones.

With that in mind, I think that the place to lobby for increased FOSS  
accessibility is the ministry of Education who controls these things,  
while private schools are just not going to have the money.
:-(

Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(