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[–] vpol@feddit.uk 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Which is good, right? (Not proprietary part).

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but for some reason a lot of buy european is concentrating on proprietary offerings

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] lauha@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of course, and larhe organizations (such as EU) don't just adopt software but rather buy service contract from a corporation so they don't have to figure it out themselves.

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

And so they can blame someone when stuff goes wrong.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Hard to sell.

Companies sell support for FOSS all over the world. SLAs and consultants for days

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

And even better for people that don't live in us or Europe, right? Right?