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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by Guthur on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:16AM (#43770414)
Microsoft has a terrible history of integration even among it's own products and has forced obsoletion throughout. If it's literally you only have a single vendor to pay then you must look for a nationalised solution otherwise you'll just be creating oligarchy.

You can't on the one hand maintain the myth that there will somehow be private competition but then on the other set the barriers so high that only the largest most entrenched monopolies can succeed.

Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by robertlagrant on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @07:46AM (#43770985)
> you must look for a nationalised solution otherwise you'll just be creating oligarchy

Er, why? If France buys a lot of Microsoft licences, they are suddenly an oligarchy?