3 days until at Paris : How many hours do you use your office computer per day? For 6h in front of the computer, this makes 6h·20d·11=1320h per year: Time that users spent in an ecosystem entirely controlled by few powerful, rich people in other countries.

And more and more, wants to increase this control and extract value for its shareholders. Change of license models to extract annual rents, forced upgrades to , etc. 1/2

Proprietary Ecosystem (Windows, Azure): pay an (increasing rent), single product vendor, vendor lock-in, take it or leave it, no control on innovationFree and Libre Ecosystem (Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation)

· public invest (public money, public code)
· several possible product vendors
· competitive public procurement
· open source license permits everyone
  to modify code and innovate
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