[craigsmansion]

I think one of the nicer points to take away here is that prof. Sussman worked around remote teaching problems not by getting bogged down in meetings, but by calling a friendly admin and by himself installing a piece of free software on a computer he had lying around in his lab.

Free Software gives you back the agency to solve your problems in any way you see fit(be they hacks or not). It doesn't leave you helpless and dependent on the goodwill of third parties.

[nanna]

So long as there isn't a bureaucracy in place to get in the way. That's a limit of Free Software.

[kick]

That's a limit of bureaucracy, not of free software.

[Shared404]

Unfortunately, still an effective limit of FL/OSS software.

Not the software's fault, but still still a limit.