Plan of National Chi-Nan University to Stop Purchasing Microsoft Office from 2018 Raises Heated Discussions

Ben Jai, a famous entrepreneur and public opinion leader in Taiwan, said on his Facebook page: “For a student, it should be more important to actively explore new things rather than waiting for someone to teach him. If he just waits for teachers to teach him how to use a tool and plans to use the tool all his life, he will be very easily eliminated.”

Another article on The Inside Media discussed this topic and gave a conclusion by asking this question: “Maybe Microsoft Office has been the basic skill of many enterprises. However, why our education only teaches our students a single tool, instead of training our students to learn and adopt new skills actively?”

See https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/04/27/taiwan-ncnu/
News about the migration to ODF in Taiwan

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