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What To Do in Schools?

Why free software is not widespread in schools?
  • Because freedom costs!
  • Using free software is more involving and takes more work;
  • Only the teachers who feel oppressed by proprietary software are willing
    to take the extra steps to free themselves from slavery.
What To Do?
  • We need to work on consciousness;
  • We need to raise consciousness about how teachers using proprietary and monopolistic software
    turn themselves into salesmen;
Only when this awareness finds its way inside school staff (teachers, technicians, executives, etc), we will be able to free ourselves from the yoke of obscurantism and the dogmatism found in monopolistic proprietary software. Only then we'll be able to educate pupils to value freedom, bringing back the teaching of computer science and new technologies inside our modern scientific culture.
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