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by cyberpunk 1157 days ago
Yeah. I’m sure none of them have any device capable of watching Netflix or have a gmail address..
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clnq 1157 days ago
To me this looks like it’s about principle of not being denied education if you do not consent to big corp EULAs.
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benatkin 1157 days ago
Foreign big corp EULAs.
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totetsu 1157 days ago
When I was a student last, I was using an Ubuntu laptop, and an android phone that was no longer receiving updates, so couldn't run any of the new versions of the apps required to do so many things.
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orwin 1156 days ago
I had a Debian and a firefoxOS!

Nowadays I'm a sellout and traded liberty for convenience (and deserve neither, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin), but I used to fight the FOSS fight. My first two jobs were on Agpl/gplv3/gplv2 products!

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plaguepilled 1156 days ago
Heh, ironic that a user named cyberpunk is defending the corporate default.

Advocating for change is not invalidated by hypocritical details. Don't be that guy.

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counttheforks 1156 days ago
Did anyone force you to use either of those to complete your education? No? What's your point again?
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