Give Students #UserFreedom
Overwhelmingly, students are being required to use tools in the classroom that they are forbidden to study, share, or modify. Not only do programs like Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom invite a potentially malicious third-party into the educational environment, but more importantly, they increase society’s dependence on proprietary software, software that denies its users their freedom.
By contrast, free software is software that respects the freedom of its users. In a perfect fit with the principles of good education and science, free software allows its users to:
