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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

And Adobe could make you pay that because they had enough money before, to do the lobbying required to make sure the institutions don't go FOSS.

Perhaps, would be a nice idea to have some uni that gives both, artistic and programming courses, have the art people interact with software being worked on by the programming people. And they could use any FOSS project for that.
That way everyone gets lots of code to look at and play with, learn skills that otherwise freshers would gravely lack (looking at other's code) and maybe also get some upstream commits ^[as a result of the art people (real users) interacting with programmers who are now also interacting with industry people (upstream maintainers)]. while greatly reducing school fees