Re: Good news - UK government officially adopts ODF

Hi,
Whether it be a singular message from a polytech tutor or pressure from
business interests - the message is still the same - buy proprietary!
This is a sad indictment of where we are still at with the up take of FOSS
in society!

Not a criticism - just a sad cold fact!
Cheers,
Nathan




On 24 July 2014 10:34, Thomi Richards <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 24 July 2014 09:48, nathaN P <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Tom I am sorry that you take exception to my comment but I had a family
>> member who has come home from Otago poly this week and the message she got
>> from the computing class was - she needs to get a copy of Microsoft
>> installed on her laptop - I saw red!
>
>
> Sadly, in New Zealand, and especially in Dunedin, the overwhelming
> majority of programming jobs are Microsoft based (most C#/.Net, from what I
> hear). If a student wishes to use their personal laptop for class work
> (which certainly used to be optional, _not_ a requirement for completing
> the papers) then it's only reasonable that the Polytech advice is to
> install windows & visual studio [1]. I'm sure a similar argument exists for
> some other papers, but I don't have any first hand knowledge there, so I'll
> not speculate...
>
> While I desperately want the local job market to change, it's not fair to
> criticise the Polytech for catering to the current market.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1] Mono, and monodevelop are potential alternatives, but again, it's not
> fair to ask the Polytech staff to support something that's several versions
> behind the .Net library. It might be something to look into though...
> --
> Thomi Richards
>

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