Huge respect on standing one's ground like this.

This is actually GNU/veryFuckingCool

I salute the student's morality and character. I recently had the displeasure of having a chapter published in an academic book. The entire process was badly orchestrated on proprietary software, about which i whined incessantly. Thankfully my contribution was all undertaken on foss. I took the opportunity to introduce and explain foss and the ethical merits, but don't expect any enlightenment. Education sector/industry is rotten to the core. Typically they justify their immorality with "we must teach and prepare the students on the software they will use in industry." Feckless clowns.

The point about independent instances of Jitsi reminded me how dumb it is that every single university with a CS program doesn't host their own Jitsi instance instead of paying for enterprise licenses on teams et al... most already do their own moodle if I'm not mistaken so shouldn't be a stretch.

Firefox’s ECMAScript/JavaScript implementation (SpiderMonkey) is FOSS. I understand the fingerprinting consideration, but saying that it’s non-free is not accurate. Maybe they mean the scripts that sites themselves serve?

The link is broken, so let me ask here: What was so hard about this to begin with? Some specific software they use in some specific course?

Why use double negation? A better title would be: "How I Fought To Graduate Using Only Free Software.

Anyway, good article. :)