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   Free Software Foundation (fsf@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 23:29:41 JST Free Software Foundation

   "Many young students have a talent for programming; they are fascinated with computers and eager to learn how their systems work. With proprietary software, this information is a secret so teachers have no way of making it available to their students. But if it's free software, the teacher can explain the basic subject and then hand out the source code for the student to read and learn." https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-why.html #LearnLibre #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

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     digitalRightsNinja (digitalrightsninja@fedi.at)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 01:46:54 JST digitalRightsNinja

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     @fsf I recently noticed at a university where the science school had no computer labs - just a few machines in lobbies running Windows. No one used those lobby machines. All the students used their own laptops. Every single student ran Mac or Windows. And a majority used Google docs not LaTeX. These students took the easy way out on every decision. This really contrasts with what FSF is saying about being eager to learn.

     I discussed software quality with one of the students. They were convinced proprietary s/w was better quality.

     So FSF has a lot of work to do just to turn around the attitudes of students themselves. Maybe just that school is hopeless.