Hi,
I will be writing petition to my government (Poland) to try to get them to ban Windows at schools. I believe it should be illegal to force children to use systems that are paid and use children’s data for AI and advertising.
Maybe you will do it as well? Let’s end this insane practice.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    231·
    12 hours ago

    I agree with Stallman and others on this sort of thing, it should be illegal for any public institution to use proprietary, corporate software in any capacity.

    Public institutions are supposed to serve and benefit the public good first and foremost. The idea that they can do that equally well or better by partnering with mega-corps who’s only fundamental drive is to generate as much profit as possible for their shareholders, is idiotic.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.world
      71·
      11 hours ago

      I think about this a lot. Living in probably the most digitalized western country, pretty much 100% of the software used is proprietary.

      We are so deep in the pockets of Microsoft. It’s disgusting. The same goes for pretty much every medium/large company.