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Re:Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) by judge2020 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @10:49AM (#24481806)
> that cost me a fraction of what everyone else was using

Nowadays even MS Office is free for everyone in the Office 365 org, so kids today won't pay until they leave their school and need a home license (and that's if they don't work somewhere that uses Office 365 as well, allowing them to install it on their home machine).

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Re:Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) by boogies on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:59PM (#24483554)
> on a tiny Linux netbook using OpenOffice / LibreOffice that cost me a fraction of what everyone else was using (emphasis added)

I read it as referring to the hardware. Linux runs inside many SD cards and can run on a ~$3 business card (as well as running on most supercomputers, stock exchanges, the ISS, SpaceX rockets and many cars, etc.)

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Re:Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014) by TallGuyShort on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:29PM (#24484853)
I meant it to refer to both. I had a lot of peers who were using recent MacBooks and would often buy software for their projects. I know many of them used Microsoft Office on their macs too - but whether they could get that free of charge at the time is unknown to me.
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