Free Software - Free Speech?

This is a sad story: I was recently asked to give an interview for a student driven magazine. There was a particular interest in free software, since my fellow design students all use macs and adobe software. And I gladly took the chance to speak for free software, of course. But as it seems the university head cannot accept my criticism for letting students learn and work only with a expensive software suite. Part of my arguing was that students are indirectly forced to use the software - not able to rely only on university computers this leads to an obvious behavior of the students. They get their software no matter what.

Ironically my arguing for free software in education was encountered with the surge to be aware of the proprietary software jobs that need to be saved!

The article is not going to be printed, reasoning that I don't comply to the ideas and values of the university.

I'll post it here anyway: the interview (german only).

I need to note that my interviewing partners did their best in trying to defend my position and are not to blame. Unfortunately this didn't have an impact on the official reaction.