> But that's bad news. Schools ought to avoid trapping themselves and their students into closed solutions, and teach use open source products instead, like pen

> But that's bad news. Schools ought to avoid trapping themselves and their students into closed solutions, and teach use open source products instead, like penpot. It depends. For low-income and underprivileged high school students, learning open source graphics and design tools often works against them, since job listings and internships rarely call for skills in GIMP or Penpot. Most community colleges teach design software that's widely used in business, which isn't open source. Support is a huge issue as well. Unless students are part of a community that's self-suporting (or have parents who work in IT, web development, etc.), getting help with open source software isn't as accessible as it is for commercial software. Meanwhile, virtually every library has books on Photoshop, Figma, etc. Yes, the skills are generally transferable but that's not always readily apparent.