On 2003-12-07 00:56:23 +0000 Dennis Dryden ddryden@ntlworld.com wrote:
i do remember someone who wrote course outlines and material specified MS Word and MS Access.
I'd love to know what rules that breaks. "Mathematics with Pepsi" is surely forbidden by something. I remember "Tilt" soft drink appearing in some lessons because of those rules.
I tyred to get her to have a look at OpenOffice but when i mentioned StarOffice she wasn't interested(She seemed to really not like it).
Some of the early versions were a little rough, so maybe it's not the best marketing ploy.
the UEA seems quite lacking, id be happier if they even had a windows version of GCC(like www.mingw.org) but nope just fancy MS Visual Studio.
Last I heard, some outposts still exist, but the masses definitely don't have access to them and even the computing lot don't do desktop unix for undies any more. I'd love to hear that I'm wrong.