Re: Software Freedom in education (was Re: very specific project proposal Re: What does Elon Musk say about free software?)

2022-05-26 Thread yasu
Hello! So I created these places: [1]https://mobilizon.fr/@digital_commons [2]https://github.com/yugawara/digitalcommons I hope like-minded people can start to add contents and we can make it better over a long time! I can make anyone intested an 'Administrator'. My

Re: Software Freedom in education (was Re: very specific project proposal Re: What does Elon Musk say about free software?)

2022-05-24 Thread Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss
I was reading your long email, and this has been on my mind for a long time, but in order to get the freedom respecting software technology into the hands of everyone for everything instead of proprietary software, what you have to solve is not a technology problem, but a marketing

Re: Software Freedom in education (was Re: very specific project proposal Re: What does Elon Musk say about free software?)

2022-05-22 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
With partners, I am currently trying to start a "digital commons movement", if you will, a community where people learn together and rebuild a new collaborative society based on partnership of the equals, and I stress this term equal partnership - zero hierarchy, zero "come back later when you

Re: Software Freedom in education (was Re: very specific project proposal Re: What does Elon Musk say about free software?)

2022-05-22 Thread Jean Louis
* Erica Frank [2022-05-19 22:30]: > It's increasingly clear to me that the free software movement has little > interest in outreach to the general non-coder/non-developer public, and > this reply just reinforces my belief. That is not true. That is your personal impression, though it is not

Re: Software Freedom in education (was Re: very specific project proposal Re: What does Elon Musk say about free software?)

2022-05-18 Thread Jean Louis
* Erica Frank [2022-05-13 21:32]: > The biggest impediment to getting free software used on campuses (and > in the business world) is the lack of beginner-level support for > switching from Windows or Mac to a free OS. Installing an operating system is simply NOT for beginner. Your best option

Re: Software Freedom in education (was Re: very specific project proposal Re: What does Elon Musk say about free software?)

2022-05-13 Thread Lars Noodén
On 5/13/22 21:05, Erica Frank wrote: [snip] And if they ask on Stack Exchange or Stack Overflow, newbie > questions are often faced with reactions like "question closed" followed by a link to another question that they do not understand as similar to theirs. The reactions to complaints about

Re: Software Freedom in education (was Re: very specific project proposal Re: What does Elon Musk say about free software?)

2022-05-13 Thread Erica Frank
The biggest impediment to getting free software used on campuses (and in the business world) is the lack of beginner-level support for switching from Windows or Mac to a free OS. The problem with multiple Linux (and similar) setups, each adapted for different specific needs, is that