Rethinking TeX in STEM: Online Thu 29 Sep: 6.30pm BST (UK time): From the TeX Hour

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 10:26 PM Christopher Dimech <dimech at gmx.com> wrote:

> > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 5:53 AM
> > From: "Jonathan Fine" <jfine2358 at gmail.com>
> > To: members at tug.org, "tex-live" <tex-live at tug.org>, "TeXhax" <
> texhax at tug.org>
> > Subject: Rethinking TeX in STEM: Online Thu 29 Sep: 6.30pm BST (UK
> time): From the TeX Hour
>
>
> For something befitting the education of technically capable people, one
> thing is to reject Zoom.
> Zoom is unjust, because it requires users to run nonfree  programs,
> mistreating and limiting users.
> Zoom lied to users for years about its software's encryption capability
> and security. It also
> installed malware to override security features of some browsers.
>
> Besides sending personal data straight te Facebook, Zoom enforces Chinese
> censorship against
> those who voice its murderous repression of protests.
>
> Please rethink that !
>
> Christopher Dimech
> Administrator General (Gnu Project)
>


Do you have any suggestions for a substitute?

Open Source evangelist that believe there is only one god should show the
way.

There are many quarters of the software space where there is no OS
equivalent -- try pre-press, for example. There are no open source software
that can determine the color spaces of a PDF file.


Paulo Ney
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