ARTICLE: Every AZ student to get Microsoft Office

Brian Cluff plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:43:52 -0700 (MST)


> OK, time to find out who my Representative in congress is, and the state senate
> and start complaining.  I keep hearing excuses about how the schools can't
> afford to do the basics of RRR (reading, writing, arithmatic) and then the AZ
> school board turns around and blows $172 Million of taxpayer money on
> Monoposoft.

I can show them straight out that open source works and works well.
Although Sequoia still isn't quite ready to move to linux. We have been
running 100% opensource and free software on windows for the last 2 1/2
years and other than some initial complaining from people that would
complain about anything in their live that suddenly changed, we havent
looked back at all.   Everything is working 100% as it should be, and the
kids can have a copy of all of it and run it at home, full speed without
haveing to have an internet connection at all or deal with the slow, and
unrelyableness(is that a word.. well it is now) of citrix.

Brian Cluff