New Hampshire on the cusp of enshrining software freedom into law
> … alongside the rest of humanity in a collective development effort, as opposed to the alternative where we would be restricted by companies like Microsoft or Apple, who only care about controlling us to make money.<p>I was optimistic until I read this sentence.<p>So, does this bill mean that products like MS Office can’t be used in schools because it would force students to use proprietary software? Is it just targeting websites that use extensions that are only usable in a certain browser?<p>The stated goals seem good at first glance but then the justifications go off the rails for me.<p>> You can’t become a competent programmer by using Windows or MacOS.<p>MacOS is BSD based and runs most OSS so, I’m not even sure how they are coming up to this point.<p>Similarly, Windows has been used for development and teaching development at universities for a long time.