Hello!
Unfortunately we are not a strong lobby group with a lot of power. What we want is for course information and assignments to be in open formats. PDF is such a format. If you use OpenOffice you can simply export to PDF.
Even though the document format used by OpenOffice is open it is not supported by very many applications other than OpenOffice. We cannot (don't want to) demand that teaching staff use free software themselves, we just don't want students to be forced to do so. In your case, would there be a problem with handing in a PDF?
-- Philip
On 2/4/07, Abdellah Malti abdma118@student.liu.se wrote:
Hi,
I'm a new Liu student studying the molecular electronics masters program in Norrköping. The TNE054 course taught by Mats Fahlman http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~matfa/ is part of my curriculum, and the instructor would only accept documents in Word or Pdf format. I tried, of course, talking him into accepting an open standard (OpenOffice comes to mind) but sadly, I don't seem to have been convincing enough.
You guys will hopefully have more leverage on the issue.
Thanks for your time.
/Malti
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