Laptops sold in store. Vendor that targets schools elementary to college along with software and support to manage a fleet of computers. Would be relevant for corporations too. They would market and support Linux hardware

User friendly way to deal with permissions on flatpaks. Needs to be like Android and iOS where when it's needed, you get a prompt box to affirm/deny or file/application picker to grant access to

Grow commercial support orgs for professional software support. Like orgs that support deployments of LibreOffice. Blender foundation is good. More of that for other open source pro/prosumer software. Sales and support staff separate from developers

[–] qistoph@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

I think you make a good point regarding support. This is, for businesses, the crucial issue. They want to buy reliance, support and certainty. This is what commerce, like Microsoft, offers; peace of mind for (big) bucks.

Organizations can't easily take measures to assure proper support for a lot of open source software. They'd have to hire and probably educate a lot of expertise, which all has to be managed too.

It's just a whole lot easier for decision makers to spent extra money to have a contractor solve any issues, or at be able to blame (sue) them.

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