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From:Anthony W. Prime
Date:4 Apr 2001 at 07:34:17
Subject:Re: Amiga announcements - any questions?

Don Cox. On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 you wrote:

>There does seem to be a lot of work going on at Vapor. I really expect
>that Voyager will be happy with Javascript in a few weeks.

I have really enjoyed seeing V blossom. There are (sadly) not too many must
have applications on Amiga OS, but V is rapidly becoming one of them IMO.

>The Pre-School software is a bigger problem. Microsoft are making a
>strong bid to get a stranglehold on the UK education system.

Tell me about it. A friend of mine works in the open source community and is
heading a project to improve schools access to open source as a way of
meeting their computing needs at lower cost.

A national conference was planned to really get things moving, but an, urm
"major software supplier" objected in quite a menacing way which resulted in
it`s cancellation :(



Anthony W. Prime
anthony@prime.clara.co.uk

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