What’s the point of making students use proprietary and insanely expensive programs during their education? Most of the people I see running Windows just goes strait to known sites which provide illegally versions of the given software. Which dosen’t educate anyone about values and respect for lisences.
On the other hand, it dosn’t seem like business respect "Free Software" and licenses like the GPL and the artistic license either. But student’s should be educated to instead find other programs that are under the GPL and GPL-compatible licenses. (There probably a lot more licenses which constitutes freedom (I don’t even know if constitutes is the correct word in this sentence)).
So my question is: why educate students to break the licenses, and thereby also the law, during theire education? Why not teach about how to use computers to slov a problem? Not how to use a proprietary program to solv a problem. That’s just stupid!
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