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<h2>Successful Resistance Against Nonfree Software</h2>
<p>Our aim in this section is to show examples of how
people have successfully resisted and replaced nonfree
software in educational institutions by various means,
such as by talking to schools administrators and by
setting up freedom and privacy respecting platforms for
remote education.</p>
<p>Some of the items below include examples of web-based
videoconferencing software. We have verified that in some
cases they require to run nonfree JavaScript code to be
usable. <strong>The GNU Project warns against <a
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<em>eliminate it entirely</em> or <a
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<em>free the code</em></a>.</p>
<p>If you would like to set up an instance of Jitsi Meet on
your own server, we recommend that you do NOT install the
standard release, because it does not indicate clearly the
licensing of the JavaScript code. Instead, install the <a
href="https://vcs.fsf.org/?p=jitsi-ansible.git">FSF's
cleaned-up version of Jitsi Meet</a>, which does clearly
state the licensing.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
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<li>A student of Computer Science in Poland <a
href="/education/how-i-fought-to-graduate-without-using-non-free-software.html">
fights back</a> proprietary software at his university and manages to graduate
using only free software.</li>
<li>In Spain, a father succeeds in getting some of his children's
schools <a
href="/education/remote-education-children-freedom-privacy-at-stake.html">
drop Skype and switch to Jitsi</a>.</li>
<li>As soon as MIT Prof. Gerald Jay Sussman realized that nonfree
licenses were being offered for teaching online classes, he saw
the moral issue at stake and started working to ensure he would
not use them. <a
href="/education/teaching-my-mit-classes-with-only-free-libre-software">
He succeeded in teaching his Spring 2020 online classes using
exclusively free software</a>.</li>
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<li>Free software activists in Valencia, Spain, (削除) have (削除ここまで) set up
(削除) <a href="https://bbb.valenciatech.com/b/">a (削除ここまで) (追記) a (追記ここまで) server
running
(削除) BigBlueButton</a>, (削除ここまで) (追記) BigBlueButton, (追記ここまで) an advanced web conferencing system that
features sharing of media files and documents, whiteboard, and
other capabilities. Although this platform is free software,
work is currently being done on this implementation so that it
will clearly show the JavaScript licensing. Read
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigBlueButton">more about
BigBlueButton</a> and <a
href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/BigBlueButton">download it</a>.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-gives-freedom-respecting-videoconferencing-to-all-associate-members">
The Free Software Foundation runs an instance of Jitsi Meet
on its servers</a> and makes it available to its associate
members.</li>
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