Free/Open Source Software is great. Problem is, it’s also increasingly irrelevant

TLDR:Software geeks, parents, educators and lawmakers should get their common priorities straight and start to seriously work together to achieve what matters the most in an all-digital world. Here is what, why, and how.Public service announcement: if you like my work, thanks in advance for one-time donations via PayPal (mfioretti@nexaima.net) or LiberaPay., which are even better than (still welcome) paid subscriptions. I am also available to work, speak and teach on the same topics: if interested, please email mfioretti@nexaima.net.One-paragraph introduction to Open Source for readers who may not know it yet: Free/Open Source Software, or FOSS for brevity, is software whose full source code is legally available for everybody to study, modify, reuse and redistribute, even commercially. These possibilities make it much easier to find and fix software bugs, and make locking users into any FOSS software application almost impossible. Some form of FOSS has been around since when computer…