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<h2>The Dangers of Proprietary Systems in Online Teaching</h2>

<p>Since March 2020, educational institutions all over the world have 
been forced to migrate their daily activities to online teaching due 
to the COVID-19 sanitary emergency. For many schools, this constituted 
a first important step towards digitalization. However, the 
transition to <strong>remote teaching has brought an unwelcome guest: 
nonfree software for classes online</strong>.</p>

<p>Many schools have adopted video conferencing programs and Learning 
Management Systems (LMS) that are proprietary software. These nonfree 
programs are used by software development companies as weapons against 
students' and teachers' fundamental rights to computer freedom and 
privacy. Nonfree software is the antithesis of education since it 
forbids the sharing of knowledge and is specifically designed to 
prevent it. <strong>There should be no place for nonfree software in 
educational environments</strong>.</p>

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software</a> is readily available for all activities in the digital 
classroom and should be chosen instead of their proprietary 
counterparts.</p>

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Successful Resistance Against Nonfree Software</a> <br />
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Help Your Students Resist Zoom</a></li>
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