> Proprietary software is incompatible with education.
That's an astonishingly sweeping statement. I learned to programme over 30 years ago using the proprietary ZX-Spectrum basic. In what way was I not educated?
Meanwhile my kids taught themselves all about the creation of logic gates using redstone dust and pressure switches in Minecraft to control their roller-coaster layouts.
Please see the link that I provided; it's not that people can't _learn_ with proprietary software; that's obviously not the case at all.
I learned to program on a proprietary operating system with a proprietary language---Visual Basic---when I was ten years old. And I was taught that sharing was bad. I distributed some code to others, but when I wrote some actually useful software, it was proprietary, and nobody saw the source code.
I didn't know about free software until after I started using GNU/Linux; I noticed that a game's "binary" (Frozen Bubble) was the source code---a python script. It amazed me, and I didn't entirely understand why. But I loved that I could hack it and make changes to it.
That's an astonishingly sweeping statement. I learned to programme over 30 years ago using the proprietary ZX-Spectrum basic. In what way was I not educated?
Meanwhile my kids taught themselves all about the creation of logic gates using redstone dust and pressure switches in Minecraft to control their roller-coaster layouts.