[kristjank]

My experience is that in most of small companies, the revenue extraction cycle from big SaaS suites has gone far enough that people are moving to self-hosted (or rather colocated with a local-ish provider that installs and provides unofficial support) software, like they used to do before the great plague.

Considering how Zipf's law works, there might be a huge discrepancy coming on as we see the products deteriorating from all the AI and H1B spaghetti code to the point where LibreOffice appears quite competent by comparison. Most of the people I worked with just want to sell lamps or furniture or trumpets or whatever they do, and the inventions of modern SaaS make this a lot harder to do. Once enough small businesses stop paying their 5-user subscriptions, I think this whole thing will pivot heavily into the favor of those that just maintained their product well and didn't ensloppify it in the mantime.

[noosphr]

I build a website generator from Word files in a folder for a coop I'm in. Four years back I had to move it to using libre office because Word broke how links in files work. As of last year the whole coop is using libre office because it works better than ms office which has corrupted old important files multiple times. I don't see a reason why they can't move to an xfce Debian. Having a consultant come in once every 5 years to update everyones computers is a lot cheaper than all the ms licenes you have to pay for now and easier to use without constant breaking changes.