• @dustyData
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    14 days ago

    Is the school providing the license? because if they’re not, then it is a rough call to require and force parents to pay for a non essential tool. This is why FOSS is such a powerful education ally. It doesn’t cost any of the end users any money. This kind of things is why people still think MS products as the default. MS spent a lot of money in marketing to force education to treat them as such.

    • David GerardOPM
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      14 days ago

      you are both correct and fatuous, which is an ideal combination

      assume that in the past 25 years everyone here has heard the gospel of RMS

      • @dustyData
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        114 days ago

        But why the downvote? Just because things suck we should just lie down and take it? We can at least talk about how it sucks and we wish it were different. There’s nothing silly in wanting the world to be better.

        • @[email protected]
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          814 days ago

          you are, without any sense of shame, evangelizing libreoffice to someone who compiled it straight from git like 12 hours ago because they use it constantly, in a community made entirely out of techies deeply involved with open source projects

          and now you’re complaining that your weak shit got a tiny number of downvotes? cause we didn’t clap like seals at the mere idea of the existence of open source software? fuck right off, thanks

          • David GerardOPM
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            714 days ago

            say friend, have you heard about our lord and saviour Richard

            jooooin us nooow and shaaaare the soooooftware

            • @[email protected]
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              614 days ago

              you’ve fucking done it

              my next movie marathon is gonna be Revolution OS, Battlefield Earth, Antitrust, and then I’m going to go into a coma

              • David GerardOPM
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                614 days ago

                no no! you have so much to live for! like

                (#include <CURRENT EVENTS>)

                never mind, knock yourself out and rise up in vengeance

          • @dustyData
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            114 days ago

            That’s unnecessarily hostile. But whatever…