[school-discuss] Re: [Fwd: File formats and distance learning]

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Doug, :)
I am looking for the right audience, this might be it.

Don't you think that need to get a large body of people who are 
willing to help fight for their freedoms?

At the bare minimum that will be the area of file formats.

The page you mentioned is timing out, maybe it will work later on.
mike

--- Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net> wrote:
 > [I received this this morning.  I'm passing it along to stimulate
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 > you, James Michael DuPont :-) ).--Doug Loss]
 >
 > -------- Original Message --------
 > 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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