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The Star: More Local Schools to get OpenOffice

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 22, 2003

“Following the success of its initiative to donate 50 CDs
containing the OpenOffice 1.1 open source office productivity
suite, students of Britain’s Wilmslow High School have burned 50
more OpenOffice 1.1 CDs for free distribution to Malaysian
schools.

“According to Colin Charles, OpenOffice.org community marketing
contact for Malaysia, schools that benefited from the first round
of donations in October included SMJK Bukit Bintang Boys, SMJK La
Salle and SMJK Sultan Abdul Samad School here…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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