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
As much as I hate to say it, Matrix and Nextcloud are too janky for the general public. Nextcloud having to download and run multiple MBs of php code makes it feel so sluggish to use the WebUI, and Matrix…
Well, I think Matrix couldve been good but Waiting forthis message, You don't have access to this message, ⚠️ Unable to decrypt message , This room has been replaced , and its very confusing for people who are used to Slack/Discord style UIs where you only need an invite link to join every room and not just joining the space, where you have to join every room individually.
Hopefully change becomes easier with FOSS options becoming more capable.
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
As much as I hate to say it, Matrix and Nextcloud are too janky for the general public. Nextcloud having to download and run multiple MBs of php code makes it feel so sluggish to use the WebUI, and Matrix…
Well, I think Matrix couldve been good but
Waiting for this message,You don't have access to this message,⚠️ Unable to decrypt message,This room has been replaced, and its very confusing for people who are used to Slack/Discord style UIs where you only need an invite link to join every room and not just joining the space, where you have to join every room individually.But who would bribe the comany or department bosses to use their stuff in particular when there is no money to be made from licensing costs… 😉