Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 23, 2006 10:37 PM
And if nobody switches to free software, the job prospects will be controlled exclusively by the proprietors.
At one time the proprietors fought this same fight, photo editing wasn't always done with computers or the proprietary computer software you might use. It's time that we start positioning society to favor the civics lessons we need to teach instead of teaching everyone to support a dog-eat-dog society where only the rich truly get their say. One way we can do this is to teach people to create and defend community-building rather than devising new ways to hold computer users separate and helpless from each other.
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html" title="gnu.org">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html</a gnu.org> is far more deep-thinking than your post and far more important in the short and long term. But it takes guts to act on these principles, far easier to acquiese to whatever the proprietors tell you to do and let them run your school's computer labs, your wallets, and run your software freedom right out the door.
By the way, I use free software every day at my job. The proprietary software available is often quite poor (Dreamweaver's content management system is poor, what really matters is skill with drawing and photo editing software not the particular program, and no use of any popular proprietary app is a substitute for knowing what's going on with a program--precisely what you're prohibited from learning with proprietary software).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 23, 2006 10:37 PMAt one time the proprietors fought this same fight, photo editing wasn't always done with computers or the proprietary computer software you might use. It's time that we start positioning society to favor the civics lessons we need to teach instead of teaching everyone to support a dog-eat-dog society where only the rich truly get their say. One way we can do this is to teach people to create and defend community-building rather than devising new ways to hold computer users separate and helpless from each other.
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html" title="gnu.org">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html</a gnu.org> is far more deep-thinking than your post and far more important in the short and long term. But it takes guts to act on these principles, far easier to acquiese to whatever the proprietors tell you to do and let them run your school's computer labs, your wallets, and run your software freedom right out the door.
By the way, I use free software every day at my job. The proprietary software available is often quite poor (Dreamweaver's content management system is poor, what really matters is skill with drawing and photo editing software not the particular program, and no use of any popular proprietary app is a substitute for knowing what's going on with a program--precisely what you're prohibited from learning with proprietary software).
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