Ontario Schools License StarOffice 536
An anonymous reader writes "Sun Microsystems has signed a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Education in one of the biggest deals yet for its StarOffice software. It covers 72 public and parochial school boards in Ontario. All will be licensed to use StarOffice 7 on all school-owned PCs. Financial details weren't disclosed but Ontario school officials said the cost is 'minimal.'" Reader Apostata adds that the move "will see the application suite used by 2.5 million students. No word on whether it ships with 'Canadian English' pack ;)"
Hosers (Score:3, Funny)
Will StarOffice append '", eh?" to every sentence? Or does it simply replace "about" with "aboot"?
Re:Hosers (Score:4, Funny)
Canadian English (Score:2, Funny)
American - Canadian
Soda - Pop
11th Grade- Grade 11
well thats all i can think of, that sure killed 2 minutes
Re:Backstory (Score:5, Funny)
The ministry probably can't even get StarOffice if the budget is cut to $500mil, maybe then they'll start considering OpenOffice
Re:Canadian English (Score:5, Funny)
The only road- Highway 1
Dollar-1.25
(ok, you had to see that ep of south park to get it)
Re:Hosers (Score:5, Funny)
'Canadian English' pack? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Licensed...? (Score:5, Funny)
Given the tortured grammar of that sentence, Canada feels no loss.
Re:Hosers (Score:5, Funny)
The Canadians I know say "aboot" but they don't know it. One of them asked us about the reference in South park. "What's all that aboot? We don't say aboooot."
Re:Need OO.o to MS filters (Score:5, Funny)
I had to think for a minute about rtf. My first reaction: RTF What? The Manual or the Article? It's a short step from RTF to RTFM or RTFA.
Re:Canadian = British = English != American (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hosers (Score:5, Funny)
I'll give it to you straight -- we may wear toques, sit on chesterfields, and pay for our two-fours in loonies, and we may even say "aboot", but we get more beaver than anyone else on the planet.
You appear to be writing a letter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cost? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Those damn teachers (Score:2, Funny)
No wonder you're staying anonymous!
Re:Cost? (Score:1, Funny)
Just look at what the Tories did for Ontario! We're dumber, sicker, and no one can afford electricity. But who needs electricity when we're all sick from bad water!
I luvs Stephen Harper, I wants to have his babies!
Re:Backstory (Score:5, Funny)
Segmentation Fault.