It's also the case that the corporate world loathes not having vendors and a chain of accountability and proprietary tech companies have been using these to attack OSS and prevent its wide adoption for decades.

But most importantly corporate and government IT loves Microsoft's Active Directory and there's no alternative to that in Linux.

Open source is known to fix bugs ASAP; i don't know many major vulnerabilities in the linux kernel that lasted more than a week

They wouldn't even disclose/fix bugs and vulns if it didn't impact their own bottom line. Think about how much in closed source is yet to be discovered or exploited.

Then they go out and say we are the industry standard and sell the software to schools on discounts to hook people on them. They also go out and say if you don't use our software, you will be left behind.

Fuck Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Kollar-Kotelly

That case was going perfectly well until she stepped in. I can only assume she was bribed. Her decisions just don't make sense otherwise.

The relevant authorities failed because the wealthy wanted them to fail. Look at how easily fascists can completely ignore the rule of law and break everything on behalf of the wealthy. Why can't we ignore the rule of law they rigged in their favor and make the world better for the 99%?

almost like that's not what laws are actually for. laws are for turning the weak against each other while the strong proliferate power. if they ever seem to be on your side, something's up.

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Could you elaborate on this? What was this operating-system-to-be?

The fear of opening a port is what killed us IMO.

Imagine connecting to another computer, without (Gasp!) going through a centralised server?!!

/Rant off I guess

And who knows what the Web would be like if we didn't let Google write half of the modern RFCs...

Ah, what could have been...

Or more like some dumbass back in 1986 made an arbitrary decision and it's now hardcoded into every system on the planet, and the improvement is not enough of an improvement to justify breaking backwards compatibility.

but if they don't give all their money yo Americans, who will fund the fascist mode of production?

Hopefully change becomes easier with FOSS options becoming more capable.

• LibreOffice can handle most common document formats for business, I think the main thing they're missing is a MS Projects alternative.
• NextCloud can handle cloud syncing.
• There's plenty of email managers like Thunderbird, and there's already a wide variety of email providers and a large company can afford to manage email themselves.
• Matrix and XMPP are developed enough that they can easily replace Teams and Slack

And the best thing (for businesses) about all of these options are that there's no licensing costs. There's already some companies switching to FOSS tech stacks, and so long as they're successful the trend could spread. Even more so if Europe succeeds at breaking away from US tech companies, since their adoption would mean even more funding for FOSS development

But the problem is that for a lot of businesses, it just doesn’t make financial sense to set up their own decentralised systems

The exact opposite is true. For every company big enough to have any in-house IT capacities it's cheaper to do it yourself. There is a reason AWS and hundreds of similiar smaller comanies globally became a provider of computer services and server capacities: it developed as a side-gig from over-capacities in their own infrastructure. Infrastructure build because it made finacnial sense to set it up to themselves to save money and have actual control over their data and stuff.