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"We'll get in touch with their administration on your behalf, and let them know that a global community of activists and everyday people alike have signed a sta
by cbm-vic-20 6y ago
"We'll get in touch with their administration on your behalf, and let them know that a global community of activists and everyday people alike have signed a statement in support of free software in education."
Sure, but how does this solve the problems that schools have? The problems that are currently being solved well enough now by the likes of Google and Microsoft? If the FSF wants this to succeed, they need to demonstrate and convince school districts that Free Software can meet their needs with costs they can afford. It would help their position if they could show a school district that has successfully gone in this direction.
- boogies 6y agoThey do something somewhat along those lines https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-cases.html#content https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-cases.html#content https://www.gnu.org/education/successful-resistance-against-nonfree-software.html#content https://www.gnu.org/education/successful-resistance-against-.... But I think the FSF would rather focus on ideals, absolute purity, and technical stuff like LibreJS tagging than do marketing for the impure populist Ubuntus of the education world (like Canvas) that already have corporations to do that (like Instructure, kind of like Canvas’ Canonical).