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What annoys me is that our local education authority, since moving to PCs from Archimedes networks, have time and again stated that they'll be embracing open sourse platforms and applications. YET my son's teachers ALL INSIST that any work typed up or otherwise done on a PC be formatted in native Microsoft Office. I've had a go at the teachers and the board of governors about this, stating for the record that I will deliberately NOT allow my children to use Microsoft Office, that any work they do WILL NOT TOUCH Microsoft Office, that any work they do will be saved in open formats such as XHTML, rich text, png graphics, SHN or FLAC audio, and divx+AC3 video. No way in hell my boys are suffering the same as me at school; that is, locked into a single proprietery format that nobody in the Real WorldTM uses (in my case it was Acorn). Open formats last forever, proprietery formats last the lifetime of the company who hold the patent.

-- Cheers,

Jim

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