[throwaway2056]

> Fighting for civil rights often makes you look like a prick, because you keep laser-focused on your goal and need to counter all the reasonable-sounding objections of people who were following their daily routines before this ball-breaker came along; but it is nevertheless necessary.

you are correct. All true.

But there are no easy to implement groupware, open office, email, chat suite. Yes, in hn you can say zoho or sogo or libreoffice. While I totally use OSS, it is a pain for Universities to find talent to implement this at scale.

Also a majority just use MS products and want compatibility. This is similar to tons of devs doing OSS dev but using MacOS (and using VM or remote ssh) as they want their devices to run for 12 hours on battery.

Some European universities tried going open solutions - this patchwork either failed or some even got hacked.

At the end, there are no easy solutions. I sincerely wished some one like Linux foundation implements a total OSS solution based on nextcloud to build all integrated suite to compete with G-suite or MS.

[counttheforks]

The problem is being required to install Microsoft spyware on your personal devices

[daviddever23box]

...to access non-free software or services. That is patently ridiculous and philosophically inconsistent.