OT: Edge on Linux - Issue.

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Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Kenneth Brody been jivin' 'bout like:
> 
> For the past four years, Laura has had a contract at a local college for 
> several weeks at the start of each semester, helping students get their 
> computers on the school's network, including cleaning off infections.  There 
> have been quite a few instances of a student coming in in a panic because 
> their trial edition of MS Office has suddenly stopped working, and the paper 
> they've been working on is due tomorrow.  Apparently, the daily "I'm going 
> to stop working in X days" message that they've been getting for quite some 
> time was just another popup window which got dismissed without being read. 
> And when the trial MS Office ends, you can't do anything with your documents 
> beyond displaying them on the screen.  (No editing, no copying, no 
> cut-and-paste, no printing, etc. etc. etc.)

OpenOffice.org, installed to removable media, perhaps?  Should be great on
a USB thumb drive -if- Java is installed on the system.

And that's if you used cluster systems.  If they're students' actual
systems, there's no excuse not to use OoO.  Don't even know why someone
would trial Office at this point,..

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