- The entire US public school system was taken over by Google, Microsoft and Apple.
- Schools have good intentions but cannot spend a lot of time to adapt, thus prioritizing short-term/quick solutions.
- Some examples of using #freeSoftware in schools.
“My sister’s university is subscribed to the educational suites of both Microsoft and Google. Lectures are delivered on Microsoft Teams”
My university is going to set up a Mattermost service because every major and student club is using Discord, even some classes are using it, which is a shame. What also really bothers me is that since the crisis began a year ago, we’re still using Blackboard Collaborate which is proprietary, I don’t see why we don’t use BigBlueButton
Try expose the problem to the directors board they maybe unware of whats going on, that students privacy being compromissed
One of my CS professors is a open-source advocate, he has a GNU Project sticker on his laptop, so I think he understands the situation
At the end of class show him this
http://epic.org/2020/12/epic-files-dc-consumer-protect.html
http://epic.org/2020/12/epic-coalition-urge-ftc-to-add.html
I hope this doesn’t happen like some teachers I had.
When you saw some signature of their “support” (GNU stickers, the installation of a GNU/Linux OS, etc) they used to tell you a story of their old times in which they were “like you”, a FLOSS lover, and how they had to change “for the good” in order to maintain contact with society, to work, or similar…
They told you their decadence as people.