IDK if you read the article, but in 5 years cost of licenses paid to Microsoft increased 72%.
Also even if cost increase temporarily, it creates local jobs skills knowhow and tax revenue. Every “dollar” spend benefits the local community! instead of just sending the money to USA.
Servicing with open source and Linux will rapidly become cheaper than Microsoft, because there will be no artificial disruptions caused by Microsoft planned obsolescence or forced updates or whatever crap Microsoft is pushing.

Important notice in this regard is that there is agreement on this among both left and right wing politicians.
So this is NOT something that will change with new administrations in either government or local communities.

When this is implemented, I don’t see any way for Microsoft to get that business back!

Edit PS:
It’s not just office, it’s also mail and cloud services.

On May 20, the U.S. issued a Travel 1 Advisory for Switzerland, reminding people to “exercise normal precautions” when visiting the country. The main concern is the rise in petty crimes like pickpocketing

Weird for USA to put an advisory on a country that is way safer than their own country.
But that’s the American false equivalence trend that permeates just about everything now.

Oh for fucks sake, I already apologized twice.
But still walking alone into a dark alley at night in a questionable neighborhood is not the smartest thing if you don’t want to be assaulted.

City leaders began moving homeless people out of public view by removing tents at a rate far surpassing those of its West Coast peers. Since 2021, it carried out 19,000 sweeps, and it dismantled over 20 encampments per day in 2024, according to city records.

We are very puzzled why spending more money on harassing homeless people increased the death rate?

Homeless residents in Multnomah County die, on average, more than 30 years earlier than the average U.S. life expectancy of 78

WTF?! That’s a life expectancy for homeless people of only 48 years!!

Another example of how American society is sociopathic. According to the numbers of the article, the death rate was an insane 8% !!!
USA is not a civilized country.

Well for starters (besides every extraordinary claim is a lie), the founder was a pedophile, and clearly unsuited to teach morals.

In the entire first quarter of 2025, Tesla has managed to sell just 7,100 Cybertrucks

That is VERY impressive!!
They actually managed to sell just over 5% of their 125000 target for 1 quarter.
Take THAT haters. Musk is a genius. 🤣🤣🤣

Not to join.

The fact that I got 3 responses that stated it is available on F-droid made me think that. F-droid does not have anything iPhone, because you can’t side-load on iPhone.

I bet if I looked at your smart phone or computer I would see plenty of services you use that compromise your privacy.

I bet you won’t.

I admit that was out of line, but for fucks sake, there are so many stupid people doing stupid things it’s unbearable. Voting for Trump for example. And the Russian people supporting the war on Ukraine.
I’m just so fucking tired of how ignorant people choose to be.

I admit that was out of line, but for fucks sake, there are so many stupid people doing stupid things it’s unbearable. Voting for Trump for example. And the Russian people supporting the war on Ukraine.

FREEDOM! 🇺🇲

tiny teams with limited resources.

If the apps work as intended, it doesn’t really matter.

That would kind of explain a lot. Including the sadistic impulses.

People don’t give a shit, and prefer to stay uninformed. Maybe more Darwin awards are necessary?

Edit: Maybe that was out of line, but I’m just so fucking tired of people who choose to be ignorant.

Look at the other comments, apparently drip should be the goto open source app.

USA is not a civilized country.

For christ sake, is there no open source option for such a simple task?

Edit:
2 people here could point to drip within 15 minutes of my post, and a third to the fact there are options on F-droid. So why the fuck don’t women just use that?
Well i guess the ones with harmful advertising have better graphics or somemeting. Or the fact they allow advertising makes them more visible on google play. And you probably can’t even get drip on iPhones.

Interesting, thanks.