Hi Dominik, I understand about software freedom, but even the Free Software Foundation has worked with Google in education since 2006, for example see this page <https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html>.
Also interesting about that page is that the FSF chooses to attack the term "open source" rather than object to Google. I believe that's called "horizontal hostility", like how some Vegans condemn Vegetarians for not being Vegan enough. Cheers, -Charlie On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 1:01 AM, Dominik George <n...@naturalnet.de> wrote: > Hi, > > > That's Google's way of letting us use Jupyter Notebooks in the cloud and > to > > share them on Google Drive. > > > > I see where students would benefit, not that this is the first or only > > cloud-based environment. Another great tool. > > Sorry to object, but no. > > Any tool that requires consent to Google's terms of use, or any other > comparably bad terms of use, is NOT suitable for use in education. > > Telling students that agreeing with them is mandatory for learning is at > least unethical and contradict fostering free and open education, and > minors > (i.e. users under the age of 18 or 16, or whatever the respective > jurisdiction defines) are not legally capable of agreeing, so they are > either talked into doing something illegal, or cannot take part in the > learning. There might be other groups this applies to, independent of age. > > Please do NOT use such tools in education. > > Cheers, > Nik > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > -- ccosse.github.io
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