I must stress that Joi Ito lost his job at MIT because he received by Bill Gates money from Epstein for his media lab. Also Richard Stallman lost his office there because a student campaigner took offense in his defense arguments of diseased colleague Marvin Minsky as a visitor of Epstein's island.

Under these circumstance I think it is appropriate not to name any academic institution after Bill Gates.

Apart from that I recall his companies treatment of Guido Sohne incident and his support for right wing extremist networks in Europe.

Apple is no open environment. I hate it when the corporates decide for you that you should not use your software under the next incarnation of the operating system to make way for some unproductive Cloud storage scheme.

I hope for the EU digital fairness Act to end these abusive practices.

Otherwise I use Linux and I think it is ready for mainstream now.

Fun fact: I knew a former apple lobbist who told me that Mac OS X was based on Linux. Which is not entirely correct.

I would expect it to be even more. In Germany I think every euro spent on renewables makes us less dependent on the strait of hormuz and other fossil nighmares.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft...

I am glad for every cent that does not fuel Exxon and the likes and the corruption of democracy that follows from that dependency.

In digital we need digital sovereignty, in energy we need energy sovereignty.

The whole Musk companies are strange, the valuation looks like fiction to me.

I mean, Musk had this car maker thar produces very few EV cars valued higher than companies that do dominate the market.

What would it take to get Wine to the next level? How much investment would be needed?

That may be the case in the US but not in Europe. There we have interop privileges in the EU software copyright directive.
This is why your the steward organisation shall be based in Europe or any other place that grants you legal satefy.

To satisfy US requirements the trick is usually to separate research from implementation.

that is, you have one project that documents functionality, and another independent project that implements the spec.

Adversarial interoperability of course needs to get stengthened.

This really does not matter. Copyright protects only the expession of software. You are free to clone software with independent code.

Let's face it, we now have four products:
- Then we have LibeOffice Online (resurrected)
- Collabora which originaed as a LO online fork.
- OnlyOffice , the Russians stranded in the Baltics
and
- Euro-Office - a fork of onlyoffice

plus from the public sector french La suite includes Cryptpad an no proper office suite
- Open desk is the German alternative at ZenDIS and includes Collabora.

I think Euro-Office will just be fine but the crucial question is how much staff they are able to amass to bring it up to speed.

How does one replace ERP / ERM frameworks? Is is even possible to write your own app with forms and data reports with a modern programming language as Rust?

AI make development more efficient and effective but the classic problem in development is not lack of people but lack of development progress.
If doubt that you can be able to lay off people, you just have to deal with more code to shape and scrutinise.

Take software maintainers as an example. You need more human maintainers to deal with the AI slop of reputation farming, not less.

Sooner or later the AI LLM market will collapse on the financial market but we will continue to need programmers that use AI.

The counter argument would be like C is more easier to code as assembler, so C led to assembler coder layoffs.
And we heard it before, about RAD assisted coding, in fact we only needed more and more developers.

All those poor teachers who will learn about World of Tanks from their pupils' WWII essays.

It is really sad what happened to the product. A prime example of what Cory Doctorow calls enshittification. there needs to be a harder push for open source apps, so we could stop the trend of products thea go down the drain and improve the security of services.

It was a really cool platform for making dating related personality tests and nerd around with other users, and then things happened.