Let me ask you: is Stallman talking about schools or businesses?
Just to be a little realistic: is there some "school activity" that makes using closed-software mandatory because there isn't an open-source alternative?
Just to be a little realistic: is there some "school activity" that makes using closed-software mandatory because there isn't an open-source alternative?
Because it was the only available software for that specific course or because your teacher told you "this is the software, period"?
Sure, they can purchase hosted enterprise versions of open source software. Of course, enterprise open source solutions have to compete on the same playing field as proprietary solutions (and many of them do! E.g. Gitlab).
Why should a school district care if there’s source code available? What are they going to do with it?
RMS subscribes to the flawed idea that the legitimately admirable ideals of FSF/GNU are important to everyone because they’re important to him. The idea that someone in charge of any organization, school, or business is going to make purchasing decisions based on ideology is somewhat naive.
The fact that some administration doesn't care about software freedoms at that point in time, does not make those freedoms void or not worthy of reminder.
It's like if you'd say that free speech isn't important because you have nothing to say. It's naive.