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[Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras]

On 08/06/2013 05:38 PM, Kostis Mousafiris wrote:
> 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."
Εχει νικησει επειδή το skype το εχει κανει να καλυτερο κατα μια αποψη
απο τοτε που το αγορασε κατα την γνωμη μου
> 
> 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."
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