I'm a huge Linux guy, but I'm comfortable jettisoning most of the concrete suggestions in this article because we now have the benefit of time and these technol

I'm a huge Linux guy, but I'm comfortable jettisoning most of the concrete suggestions in this article because we now have the benefit of time and these technologies are all practically open enough. Few, if any, today are dangerously restrictive even though back then it made sense to be worried. "Microsoft Word" is generally fine because we have Google and Libreoffice, etc. An important note I'd include is -- we probably have these things because of the pressure of the free and open source software that does exist. But what I primarily want to mention is that there is a looming uncertain threat of dangerously restrictive software that is not practically open enough. This is the "LMS." Canvas, Blackboard et al. This is where the energy and pressure of FOSS type principles needs to be pointed at today.