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Links related to FOSS deployment in the educational setting.
Updated on Aug 25, 09
Created on Aug 25, 09
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Casey Finnerty's List: Education and FOSS/Open Source
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Free software today can read most Word documents, but not all—the format is secret and has not been entirely decoded. Even worse, Microsoft can change it at any time.
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The actual format is not entirely OOXML, and it is not entirely documented. Microsoft offers a gratis patent license for OOXML on terms which do not allow free implementations. We are thus beginning to receive Word files in a format that free programs are not even allowed to read.
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From: The Reverend Father Martin Sylvester
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Aug 22, 09
Five years ago, I made one of the greatest life-changing decisions in my career—I switched my organization to the GNU/Linux operating system and supporting applications.
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