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You're talking about business workflows, and that makes sense. But this article is about universities, they have far less Microsoft-specific document editing wo
by d3Xt3r 11mo ago
You're talking about business workflows, and that makes sense. But this article is about universities, they have far less Microsoft-specific document editing workflows, compared to established enterprises. At least, that was my experience when I was a part-time teacher at a university - LibreOffice did the job just fine for me. And although other professors used MS Office, none of them did anything fancy (they didn't have any custom VBAs/macros, no disgusting database-like Excel spreadsheets etc) - I can see these people easily switching to the oss options we have today.
Of course, every university and every person is different, but it's not an impossibility unlike businesses.
- rzerowan 11mo agoYeah for faculty i guess the basic featureset would suffice. For the students however its basically a immersion in the tools/workflows that they would encounter post graduation. Knda the way the propreity software is heavily subsidised to get it into schools , and even allowing to some extent piracy.