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   Wladimir Mufty (wlaatje@social.edu.nl)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:54:44 JST Wladimir Mufty

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   @tyil Now, on to the content: the mere fact that you don’t want “garbage” to enter your home makes it necessary to know the differences between what you do and don’t want. I don’t assume that everyone knows what open source is, let alone that they keep a spreadsheet with a column for “OK” and one for “garbage.”If your approach works, by all means, keep going. I choose an approach based on informing, highlighting differences, and ensuring freedom of choice—combined with well-informed users. (2/2)

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:54:43 JST tyil

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     @wlaatje@social.edu.nl There is no freedom, nor any choice, if the educators force kids to use proprietary software. I'd argue those are bad educators, for they teach not a way of thinking, but to use a very specific program's way. To pretend there is freedom in proprietary software is nothing but lying to yourself and those you pretend to teach.
     
     Your method of "force proprietary software on kids" has been tried for a long time, and there's no sign of it getting better any time soon. Kids now get force-fed Google and Microsoft services through their schools, their data shared with American corporations, with no way for them to object or otherwise opt out of these harmful practices. Choosing anything but free (as in freedom) software perpetuates this ridiculous situation.
     
     If you care for education, and you care for your students, you will avoid any proprietary software. Learn from the mistakes of the past decade.

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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:55:16 JST tyil

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     @wlaatje@social.edu.nl not everyone knows what open source isOpen source is the bastardization of free software. Free software is software which respects the user by providing the four essential freedoms.you will have to explain thatI don't, I'm not a teacher. You come onto a free platform where values and community are already set. Spend a few minutes learning about where you're joining, it's considered polite here!keep preaching to the choir.You're not the choir, you ask for a recommendation of non-free software, while you supposedly "spreading joy of digital sovereignty". Those two ideas do not go together. Sad to see SURF's "public values" are no improvement for the educational system, and is content on just continuing what has failed students for over a decade.if you have a toot scheduler you know ofI don't, and you shouldn't either. This is not Twitter, stop trying to treat it as Twitter.

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     Wladimir Mufty (wlaatje@social.edu.nl)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:55:18 JST Wladimir Mufty

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     @tyil just read my initial toot and the extra context I gave you about how not everyone knows what open source is and you will have to explain that by explaining the differences between products. And for the rest I would say keep preaching to the choir.

     Btw: if you have a toot scheduler you know of, please share! It can be any license or businessmodel, I will make a list and add value by explaining the differences, pro’s, con’s etc. #Merci