[MonadIsPronad]

This note is perhaps conflating hardware with software. It sounds like a reasonable solution to me for each university or school to have some small server hardware running free software that supports their online needs.

[larrywright]

That’s a nice idea, but what happens when you have a situation like what happened earlier this year? Every school sent their kids home and they went fully remote. All of those software tools suddenly got a lot more use. If school districts were relying on self hosted solutions, they’d have all had to provision new hardware in a hurry. Hardware they likely don’t have budget for. The reality is that cloud based software makes a lot more sense.