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I believe right now there are discussions about it on Europe to adopt more FOSS projects. The biggest problems I see happening here is who effectively maintains this, as well who gives the money (and incentives) to keep the projects alive. As of now the German government does have a program for the incentives (do not recall if they do the people's part). Hopefully it becomes more wide and clear how this will be going forward.
Also, I do not think it would be such a small win. If anything is very significant. If you can change at that stage the tools used, eventually propagates further into the working force at some point.
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.
There is a reason we put locks on our doors and have insurance in case someone does break in. Sure this is an issue that needs to be addressed but it is one much smaller than getting the people in power to put things in motion. Once that happens (and we're getting there) there will be funding and a public awareness campaign for sure, especially once the first politician gets hacked because they were using non-proprietary software because he wanted to kick Big Tech out..