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[I received this this morning. I'm passing it along to stimulate discussion (please do the discussion on the schoolforge-discuss mailing list; if you're not already a subscriber, go to http://schoolforge.net/sfdiscuss.php and sign up--This includes you, James Michael DuPont :-) ).--Doug Loss]

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Subject: File formats and distance learning
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 04:25:52 -0800 (PST)
From: James Michael DuPont <mdupont777@yahoo.com>
To: dloss@seul.org

Dear All,

I have gotten my first installment of a e-learning package from my university, in Power Point format! I cannot easily view this with free software (I mean openoffice is HUGE). I requested that they provide me the files in Standard HTML and PNG format or PDF.

It turns out that my school is sponsored by Microsoft, and they have these restrictive student licenses the "give" the students Office for $10 and require the school to monitor their usage, prevent them from using the software commercially, and delete it when they are done with school.

After many letters to the directors and professors of the school, I agreed to start converting the materials for them into standard
format.

Many other people must have similar problems all over the world!

My question is to you : Are you interested in promoting free
software and open file formats in schools and distance learning?

mike


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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