ca. 2000, my elementary school put me and my class in front of some PCs running windows 98 (proprietary), and connected to the internet, made us open internet e

ca. 2000, my elementary school put me and my class in front of some PCs running windows 98 (proprietary), and connected to the internet, made us open internet explorer (proprietary), made us type "google.com" (proprietary) and showed us how to find things on the internet. This was actually extremely unique - in france at the time, finding schools teaching any sort of computer skills, especially to young children, let alone *online*, was basically impossible. But I remember it very vividly. I don't know if the skills "learned" at that time had any influence on me, or ended up being useful (I probably would have figured them out eventually), but… I can't be sure, and the point is, it was I think a great thing. I am an open source activist whenever I can. But saying schools have "no place supporting or teaching proprietary software" is extremely off-base, simply because the world is made of proprietary software and schools should be able to teach the reality of the world to children, teenagers and young adults.