<story><title>EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft</title><url>https://antitrust.nextcloud.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hvgk</author><text>You don’t have to use their crap. I don’t.&lt;p&gt;It is chosen by businesses and individuals because it’s about the only complete solution out there (even if it is a monumental shit show) which is cost effective. Either that or they are ignorant or genuinely like it.&lt;p&gt;The EU tech sector needs to build something better. LibreOffice and Linux as it stands is not it. I tried over and over again to use it but it’s just not good.&lt;p&gt;I’m lurking in the leper colony of iCloud, Sheets and Numbers for reference and do most of my stuff on iOS. It’s different but not better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agust</author><text>The point is not that the people aware of the situation can avoid using these services, the point is that Microsoft (just like Apple and Google) is abusing its control over the OS to entice millions of people to use their own services. This is not an even market, competition is distorted. How could better competitors emerge in such situation? As if the unlimited fundings these companies have was not enough.</text></comment>
<story><title>EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft</title><url>https://antitrust.nextcloud.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hvgk</author><text>You don’t have to use their crap. I don’t.&lt;p&gt;It is chosen by businesses and individuals because it’s about the only complete solution out there (even if it is a monumental shit show) which is cost effective. Either that or they are ignorant or genuinely like it.&lt;p&gt;The EU tech sector needs to build something better. LibreOffice and Linux as it stands is not it. I tried over and over again to use it but it’s just not good.&lt;p&gt;I’m lurking in the leper colony of iCloud, Sheets and Numbers for reference and do most of my stuff on iOS. It’s different but not better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>typon</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t think I (as an experienced software engineer) would struggle so much to  save a file until I had to use Office 365. I wish Dropbox was more popular in your average small business office.</text></comment>