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Look at Blender. No reason why that success can't be repeated.
Yes there is, blender has a unique win/win/win that justifies funding by these major software organizations.
What makes it unique?
Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
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Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
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And same goes for less technical disciplines too. Adobe, Autodesk, Archicad, etc. It's pretty bad software: expensive, very buggy, poor extensibility, poorly maintained, closed-source, rapid tech debt accumulation requires upgrading your pc every few years. If only a minor percentage of organizations licensing it would instead spend that budget financing an open source project, that would have a very positive effect…
I agree with your point generally, but wouldn’t call adobe software buggy or poorly maintained. That’s a bit of a stretch.
I don't think it's a stretch. I've numerous close friends that work with it daily and I've helped troubleshoot some of the issues. After Effects is quite hated among them, but has to be used, because there aren't viable alternatives. Illustrator crashes randomly. Photoshop has multi-decade bugs in color handling. But, the fact that their resource use baloons yearly and thus forces the industry to waste on constant hardware upgrades would be enough to discredit Adobe software, imo.
Re: Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
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Whoops, the European company just got bought out by a US entity. Tough luck! [1] Is this part of the spec? If not, it's as loose as a tent. And by "part of the spec" I mean "all your assets will be forcefully nationalized the second you or a parent company of yours becomes less than X% European owned", where X is well above 50. [1] https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/dutch-looking-into-conseque...
As a rule of thumb, I wouldn't assume that any scenario you came up with on the spot was overlooked by an agency whose job it is to not overlook complex scenarios, let alone trivially simple ones. To start with... states can and will absolutely block the sale of strategic national companies to foreign actors. But I'm sure you knew that.
The link shows that this isn't something I've come up with on the spot, it's literally happening today, and it's not being blocked. They can, yet will not, because scared of the US.