[daviddever23box]

This seems somewhat overblown, inasmuch as the use of proprietary, closed-source productivity applications developed in the United States is itself an a priori compromise of eFSF values.

Email is a thankless, dirty business (ask anyone that has ever done an Exchange migration), and there is no incentive for the University to necessarily use and maintain a persistent free software-based email backend. It would be a better outcome to allow students the ability to use their own, personally-chosen communication services and devices, with the caveat that this might exclude some students or faculty from accessing resources that are under the control of commercial partnerships.

Stop putting your hand in the meat grinder and turning the crank. It IS possible to live the FOSS dream; just stop whining that non-FOSS software and services have left you behind-it's not their directive to do so.