Dear politicians, The problem is not that I disagree with you. The problem is that your only job is, by definition, to protect the common good. But big corporations managed to brainwash you into thinking that there’s no such thing as the common good. You are not yet on the level we can disagree with. You are not even on a level we can discuss with. You are a child playing the "elect me game" to distract our attention. And it works. That makes me sad…
I ask my students to contribute to the opensource project of their choice. I just did a quick grep through the 238 projects I have in my archives. Of 238, 7 don’t mention "github.com". On close inspection, 6 of them are because the student forgot to putt the URL of the project repo. So, on 238 students, only one managed to contribute to a project which is not hosted on Github. It is even worse than I thought.