Open source won the server. It won the phone in your pocket. But it still hasn’t won the workplace: the documents, the spreadsheets, the slides. Gerald Pfeifer has spent decades

For Amnesty International Spain, digital sovereignty isn’t simply about procurement, compliance or where your servers happen to be. It’s about being able to keep working — whatever happens. In this

What happens when you set off to build a sustainable business around open source software? In this episode of Open Matters, Richard Brock speaks with Lucie Lesage from Jeci, the

Open source doesn’t grow through code alone — it also grows through communities. And communities are built when people meet, share ideas, and sometimes argue over coffee in conference hallways.

Germany isn’t just talking about digital sovereignty — it’s building it. 🇩🇪 80,000+ users pilot scheme 🧩 8 vendors, one platform 🚀 Federal rollout coming in 2027 Inside ZenDiS and

In this episode of Open Matters, Richard Brock speaks with Johan Bernhardsson from Redpill Linpro, one of the Nordic region’s leading open-source consultancies. Johan shares what real-world migrations look like:

In this episode of Open Matters, Richard Brock speaks with Thorsten Behrens, Tor Lillqvist & Jan Holesovsky – the three principal engineers behind the new Collabora Office release, about what

8.5% of the U.S. population self-hosts at least one internet-facing service — from websites and file storage to smart home tools and password syncing. But what motivates people to do

Denmark tried to legislate open source and Big Tech pushed back hard. Nearly 20 years later, open-source solutions are running citizen services in municipalities across the country and even powering

Open source is “free”—so why do serious teams pay for it? In this episode, Eloy Crespo breaks down the real value behind paid open-source offerings: support, SLAs, performance, security, compliance,

“True digital sovereignty can only exist when you combine open source and open standards. Full stop.” The Dutch are known for building dikes and canals — but these days they’re

“Why would you spend £5 on a magazine when you can get that online for free?” What does the decline of print journalism have to do with the future of

“Without radical measures to reduce dependency on digital monopolies, the digital future of Germany and Europe is lost.” —Prof. Dr. Harald Wehnes In this episode of Open Matters, we speak

“Proprietary software can be just as big a liability to digital sovereignty when it’s produced in Germany as big tech from the US.” Miriam Seyffarth from the Open Source Business

🎙️ Welcome to Open Matters, the podcast on open-source matters – because openness matters! What do shipping containers have to do with software? A lot more than you’d think. In

🎙️ Welcome to Open Matters, the podcast on open-source matters – because openness matters! Think copy and paste is simple? Think again. In this episode of Open Matters, we’re joined

In our very first episode, we’re joined by Michael Meeks – Collabora Productivity CEO, and co-founder and former director of The Document Foundation as we crack open a seemingly simple