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by ed25519FUUU 1482 days ago
I think you’re missing OPs main point that any money saved from switching to open source would be eaten away and reversed dramatically with support costs.

Can you get unlimited remote support and a weekly on-site tech for $10k a year? No way.

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I'm not missing that at all, I'm saying two things, that for one, Microsoft does this support thing well enough and two, legislation doesn't have to take the easier way, if they'd say that schools must teach X, the market would figure it out somehow. It would probably even be a worse experience as it is currently, but that never stopped any legislator.
Yes, just like the “market” figured out how to increase privacy after the GDPR and not just a shit ton of cookie pop ups.