Bearded socialist that gives out free stuff, even wearing a red coat all the time, ignoring international airspace regulations and borders? Yeah, I’m not betting on him either.

If it were that obvious, it would probably be implemented already.

That is an “if everybody just did $THING” solution and while those usually sound lovely they do not work.

Now make the people that actually live there have the same opinion and you’ve worked a political and sociological miracle.

What they have is already done developing and they are flush in cash. A company that creates an ERP for a specialized industry does not care, unless a huge chunk of their customers demand a change all at once AND are ready to pay for it. I mean, I understand the idealism but this is just one of those “if everybody just…” situations that, imho, holds back open source solutions because their defendants look a bit excentric from established businesses’ points of view.

I’m reading all these comments and I guess no one here works outside of academia or 100% IT companies.

Reality out there is, that O365 is so deeply integrated with other business related software, that it’s never going away. My company uses an ERP system that has maybe 200 customers worldwide. It is highly specialized for what we do. There is zero financial incentive for the manufacturer to support any other ecosystem. So they won’t.

We said that a few times, first it was the harddisk factories flooded in Thailand IIRC, then it was GPUs for crypto, now it’s this shit. Not much bursting, more like a chain of bubbles.

Sire, the colonies are yearning for your iron fist.

That is just awesome. Saw him in a small club in Hamburg last year and can highly recommend his shows - although I have no idea how they are going to translate into bigger crowds.