Comment by hosh

I think this is a great idea. I am for moving closer to local-first infrastructure.

For this to work, businesses would have to hire IT personnel or a consultant to implement and maintain it. There is also how much this can synergize with self-hosting.

One of the things I'm looking at doing are distributed software forges and "community supported software" (that uses open-source and free software as its base).

Also, there was an article posted here about the semantic web and a mention of something called the "data mesh". I think being able to interchange data will be important. Without that, then you're still locked into the software and possibly the vendor customized things for you.