The whole Musk companies are strange, the valuation looks like fiction to me.

I mean, Musk had this car maker thar produces very few EV cars valued higher than companies that do dominate the market.

What would it take to get Wine to the next level? How much investment would be needed?

Amazon's valuation was insane back then, their potential for growth was anything but certain (or even likely) at the time. And the SpaceX valuation seems to have been inflated by buying the similarly overvalued xAI company, and doing a stock swap to cement those valuations. I'm sure plenty of people will jump at the chance of owning SpaceX stock at whatever price (I would have when it was just SpaceX), but in the long run?
Well, maybe. Maybe lower launch costs will open up new markets for launches. Maybe they'll get their space-based data centers to work. Maybe xAI's AI will amount to something some day. Maybe there's a vast market for sat based cellular service. Not something I'm going to bet my money on... $1.75T seems high even if they manage to achieve one or all of those things.

That may be the case in the US but not in Europe. There we have interop privileges in the EU software copyright directive.
This is why your the steward organisation shall be based in Europe or any other place that grants you legal satefy.

To satisfy US requirements the trick is usually to separate research from implementation.

that is, you have one project that documents functionality, and another independent project that implements the spec.

Adversarial interoperability of course needs to get stengthened.

This really does not matter. Copyright protects only the expession of software. You are free to clone software with independent code.

Replace them with AI as well.

Let's face it, we now have four products:
- Then we have LibeOffice Online (resurrected)
- Collabora which originaed as a LO online fork.
- OnlyOffice , the Russians stranded in the Baltics
and
- Euro-Office - a fork of onlyoffice

plus from the public sector french La suite includes Cryptpad an no proper office suite
- Open desk is the German alternative at ZenDIS and includes Collabora.

I think Euro-Office will just be fine but the crucial question is how much staff they are able to amass to bring it up to speed.

I love my e-ink reader. I can read anything anywhere, and when my last book is finished, the next read is just a tap away. But that's just for linear reading. When I'm studying, I might be flipping back and forth through a syllabus, or have several of them open side by side. That works poorly on a tablet. On the plus side, with a tablet or latop, students no longer have to carry an unhealthy amount of heavy books to school.

As for using a laptop for taking notes, I find that to be way more distracting than taking notes on paper, whether it's me taking the notes or someone next to me.

The interface in OnlyOffice more closely resembles the modern ribbon interface in MS Office. For some people, that's a reason to choose LibreOffice instead. OnlyOffice. LibreOffice works very well for me, but I don't work with complex documents, and I don't need collaboration or cloud stuff. The latter might be why they selected OnlyOffice, since that's more like Office365 than MS Office; a more modern paradigm.

How does one replace ERP / ERM frameworks? Is is even possible to write your own app with forms and data reports with a modern programming language as Rust?

AI make development more efficient and effective but the classic problem in development is not lack of people but lack of development progress.
If doubt that you can be able to lay off people, you just have to deal with more code to shape and scrutinise.

Take software maintainers as an example. You need more human maintainers to deal with the AI slop of reputation farming, not less.

Sooner or later the AI LLM market will collapse on the financial market but we will continue to need programmers that use AI.

The counter argument would be like C is more easier to code as assembler, so C led to assembler coder layoffs.
And we heard it before, about RAD assisted coding, in fact we only needed more and more developers.

All those poor teachers who will learn about World of Tanks from their pupils' WWII essays.

It is really sad what happened to the product. A prime example of what Cory Doctorow calls enshittification. there needs to be a harder push for open source apps, so we could stop the trend of products thea go down the drain and improve the security of services.

It was a really cool platform for making dating related personality tests and nerd around with other users, and then things happened.

Just curious, do they develop it with ADA?