[K12OSN] OT: any OpenOffice vs. MS Office studies/cases out there?

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Alan Hodson <aahodson at episd.org> wrote:
> Having just heard at the highest level in my district that Open Office is "culturally unacceptable here" (border district of 63,000 students) I am wondering if there is someone in our community of users/believers that has come across data/studies that I could use disprove the MS ethos - I know than in Texas, both PlanoISD and SanAntonioISD are huge open source supporters, but I don't know if that has translated there, or anywhere else, into a document that we can hold up as a banner.
> Any ideas?

Most teachers are overworked. They don't want to develop new
resources. That's why when new software is presented it has to come
with resources. Like this

http://documentation.openoffice.org/conceptualguide/index.html

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada