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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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I always had people be like "Look how generous these tech companies are giving away free computers to elementary schools." And I was, even as a child like, 'Yeah its real generous to get someone to become familiar with your product when they are young, so when they buy things or ask their parents to buy things, they naturally gravitate to your product."
Generous my ass.
FSF already tackled this decades ago (https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-why.html#content). The ed-tech takeover of schools has been an effort not spearheaded by teachers and educators but by management and C-suites collaborating with each other.
Now people don't know how document typesetting works, all they know is Google Docs.