noyb has scored another win in its proceedings against Microsoft 365 Education: The Austrian data protection authority (DSB) has decided that the company illegally installed cookies on the devices of a pupil without consent. According to Microsoft’s own documentation, these cookies analyse user behaviour, collect browser data and are used for advertising. Microsoft now has four weeks to comply and cease the use of tracking cookies.
How much maintenance does a word processor need? The fact that its free IS the financial incentive. You could install mint and libre office on every computer in a school and it would basically be a seamless transition and most people would barely even notice.
Well when it’s a popular software package, swarms of “hackers” with increasingly better AI tools will be attacking it, foreign governments will be attacking it, especially if it’s used by governments. So security will be a serious, constant concern.
Open source will both help and hinder that.
Really a nonprofit consortium should be formed with paid engineers who focus on this 100%. But that nonprofit will be infiltrated and corrupted… and so on and so forth.
Humanity is a corrupting force.
Linux is already running the vast majority of internet accessible servers as it is, so this isn’t exactly a new issue that hasn’t been addressed.