Re: [seul-edu] Re: enterprise/school/government-wide agreements

[paul Sutton <psutton@uklinux.net>]

Is magic school bus written by M$

 I think we  need to petition these companies,   set up a part of the 
Linuxjournal wish list or put something on school forge, that is similar  and 
tell everyone to vote,  get a few thousand votes, then e-mail these companies 
and get them to look at the wishlist,  and more importantly how much people 
are willing to pay,  even better,  let them know about transgamning as this 
should reduce costs as they could use WineX to actually convert the software, 
perhaps some good coders could volunteer to do it for them,  they can still 
sell it as a normal product,  i.e commercial only it's for Linux,  hence 
reducing costs by a large amount,  The technology is now in place and 
improving to port stuff over now,  I think corel word perfect is using WineX 
for the Linux version.

Just an idea,

paul

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 02:27, you wrote:



> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 10:18, tom poe wrote:
> > I think it's time I
> > found out what "killer app" level stuff that is on M$, that the Open
> > Source community doesn't have.  Does anyone want to volunteer a few of
> > them for me?
>
> Magic Schoolbus, anything from Dorling Kindersley (whatever they're called
> this month), countless VB admin apps with their data locked away in Access
> .MDBs, visit any big software shop and browse their educational section.
>
> Cheers; Leon