• Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    The financial incentive would be open and standard document format to ease development and provide reliability

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      8 hours ago

      What they have is already done developing and they are flush in cash. A company that creates an ERP for a specialized industry does not care, unless a huge chunk of their customers demand a change all at once AND are ready to pay for it. I mean, I understand the idealism but this is just one of those “if everybody just…” situations that, imho, holds back open source solutions because their defendants look a bit excentric from established businesses’ points of view.