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Επειδή πιστεύω ότι οι απόψεις του Linus έχουν πάντα μια βαρύνουσα
σημασία, ρίξτε μια ματιά στην παρακάτω είδηση:

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/08/01/1413252/with-microsoft-office-on-android-has-linus-torvalds-won

"The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, once said, 'If Microsoft ever does
applications for Linux it means I've won.' Microsoft yesterday released
one of its cash cows, Microsoft Office, for Android. Since Microsoft has
a very vague idea of what users want and is suffering from lock-in, the
app is just an Android front end of Office 365 and is accessible only by
the paid users. There are already quite a lot of office suites available
on Android including Office Pro, QuickOffice and KingSoft, so Microsoft
will have to struggle there. Still it's a Microsoft core application
coming to Linux. So, it looks like Linus has won."

Επίσης, αφού το τοπίο στην Ελλάδα είναι καταθλιπτικό, ειδικά στο χώρο
της εκπαίδευσης, ας ρίξουμε μια ματιά κάπου αλλού, να πάρουμε λίγη φρεσκάδα:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/07/31/1645240/a-year-of-linux-desktop-at-westcliff-high-school
A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School
Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:17PM
from the freedom-for-all dept.
jrepin writes "Around a year ago, a school in the southeast of England,
Westcliff High School for Girls Academy (WHSG), began switching its
student-facing computers to Linux, with KDE providing the desktop
software. The school's Network Manager, Malcolm Moore, contacted us at
the time. Now, a year on, he got in touch again to let us know how he
and the students find life in a world without Windows." And they didn't
even meet much  resistance: "Younger students accept it as normal. Older
students can be a little less flexible. There are still a few that are
of the view that I can get rid of Microsoft Word when I can pry it from
them. Staff are the same (although it is surprisingly not age-related).
Some are OK and some hate > it. Having said that, an equal number hate
Windows 7 and nobody liked Windows 8. I think the basic problem is that
Windows XP is a victim of its own success. It works fairly well from a
user point of view, it's been around practically forever, and people
don't like change, even some students, oddly."