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To me this looks like it’s about principle of not being denied education if you do not consent to big corp EULAs.

Foreign big corp EULAs.

When I was a student last, I was using an Ubuntu laptop, and an android phone that was no longer receiving updates, so couldn't run any of the new versions of the apps required to do so many things.

I had a Debian and a firefoxOS!

Nowadays I'm a sellout and traded liberty for convenience (and deserve neither, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin), but I used to fight the FOSS fight. My first two jobs were on Agpl/gplv3/gplv2 products!

Heh, ironic that a user named cyberpunk is defending the corporate default.

Advocating for change is not invalidated by hypocritical details. Don't be that guy.

Did anyone force you to use either of those to complete your education? No? What's your point again?