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Re:Schools should be using open source software by bobthepanda on Monday May 30, 2022 @05:48PM (#31563986)
The problem with regulating what kind of tech you should use is that it can be surprisingly hard to change or update after the fact.

South Korea mandated usage of ActiveX in the 1990s as one of the first countries to push into online shopping, and it took until 2020 to get rid of it (and Internet Explorer) altogether.

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Re:Schools should be using open source software by digisign on Monday May 30, 2022 @05:57PM (#31564066)
It's unlikely mandating open standards would result in that flavor of lock-in.
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Re:Schools should be using open source software by zinekeller on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:35PM (#31634140)
> It's unlikely mandating open standards would result in that flavor of lock-in.

Considering the difficulty of switching from IPv4 to IPv6 and extremely creative ways to update TCP (before everyone gave up), I'm not sure of that.

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