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>Remember to include Excel. I don't understand why you would force your children to depend on an unethical for-profit corporation. Why not LibreOffice? 99% of
by fghtr 7y ago
>Remember to include Excel.
I don't understand why you would force your children to depend on an unethical for-profit corporation. Why not LibreOffice? 99% of what normal people need is covered in it.
- BTinfinity 7y agoPresumbly because Excel is used far more widely in the corporate world and will be of more use to students
- diffeomorphism 7y agoPresumably learning "spreadsheets" at the level taught in schools is much more useful than learning $brandname software's quirks. Also, at least when I went to school the software versions used were fairly old (partly because of the budget and partly because that is what the teachers originally developed their course for). Those were different enough (think pre-ribbon) to trip those people up who memorized instead of learning what things mean. I.e. "spreadsheets" skills transfer, "this is what the button looks like in office 95" does not. Schools are for learning not for training for corporate.
- 2rsf 7y ago> unethical ?? I'm not saying it couldn't be done (and run on Linux of course) but the entire industry needs professional support tailoring the needed software package, solve problems, install updates or define the needed hardware all are (presumably easily) solvable with Microsoft or Google products, but don't have out of the box solutions for an entire country. You can't rely on a school kid or teacher to install Linux distributions or download the right software.
- asfewt4 7y agoYou might like it or not (definitely not), but because Excel is unparallelled when it comes to spreadsheet software.
- tugberkk 7y agoI would defend this statement 100% if Excel had regex support in Find/Replace.
- gus_massa 7y agoWhatever spreadsheet software is fine for me. Excel is still more popular, but unless you use very advanced stuff LibreOffice is equivalent.