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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Manchester school students and software freedom
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Fred Phillips |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Manchester school students and software freedom |
Date: |
Mon, 5 May 2008 22:32:26 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) |
On Mon May 5 07:09:42 2008, Mac wrote:
> I'm so impressed with the quality of this Manchester school student's
> blog, and what he and his mates are doing at their school:
>
> http://freedomdreams.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/rms-talk/
>
> http://adfa.co.nr/
>
> I don't know whether 'Ben Webb' is a member here, but if he is, all I can
> say is "Wow!"
>
> Mac
This brings me nicely to a point I made in the gnu.misc.discuss list
and Ben’s blog, where is an acceptable place to use proprietary
software? My school <http://queenelizabeth.cumbria.sch.uk> (not
Manchester, I know) provides proprietary software for their OCR
physics course (Advancing Physics from the IOP), with no free
alternative. I have a choice of running Microsoft Windows in a virtual
machine (the software does not function in WINE) or getting all of my
work done whilst at school. Either way I will have to give up my
freedom in one way or another.