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erAck
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Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Micr...
So you prefer to throw them into the MS mono culture pit.
atonse
on March 4, 2018
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Yes. This isn’t about open source idealism. You are teaching them job skills. MS Word is a useful job skill.
erAck
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Understanding how to use any word processor is a job skill. LibreOffice supports Akan, an official language spoken in Ghana. Projects could translate the UI to Akan so even more people would be able to use it.
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