I couldn't agree more - I'm staff in a university, and you have to realise that universities are not made of people all doing the same thing. You have a huge variety of people doing a huge variety of different things, many using bizarre proprietary software. Suddenly demanding they all switch will not go down well & would probably prevent some of them from doing their jobs. One thing that immediately springs to mind is that markup made in office doesn't work in OOo. That's no use when your academics are collaborating with other users who use Office!
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I couldn't agree more - I'm staff in a university, and you have to realise that universities are not made of people all doing the same thing. You have a huge variety of people doing a huge variety of different things, many using bizarre proprietary software. Suddenly demanding they all switch will not go down well & would probably prevent some of them from doing their jobs. One thing that immediately springs to mind is that markup made in office doesn't work in OOo. That's no use when your academics are collaborating with other users who use Office!