Three cheers to the Kerala text books, which are attempting to offer vendor-independent education in IT, as is evident from this extract below, Chapter III, Std X text book (available for free download):
http://mission.akshaya.net/dpi/
* Spread sheets are the software which helps to calculate quickly and easily. * Different spreadsheets are used in the Operating system(s) such as Windows and GNU/Linux. * Microsoft Excel is the widely used spreadsheet in Windows. * Open Office Calc is the spread sheet used in GNU/Linux.... _____ _/ ________ Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa \ __/ \ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.bytesforall.org / ----------------------------------------------------- Sign up for low-volume, high-quality news summaries and updates from Goa at http://newsfromgoa.swiki.net * It's free and volunteer-driven.