What industry could benefit from more of their technology being open source, but the solutions are either not there or seriously lacking?

https://lemmy.world/post/38749817

What industry could benefit from more of their technology being open source, but the solutions are either not there or seriously lacking? - Lemmy.World

For me, it’s small business retail. Point-of-Sale systems, physical inventory management, the existing options are not built for smaller operations or are not good.

Software in healthcare. I know one software that is only used because staff high up in the chain knows the owner, but the product is a hot mess from the 1990s in terms of technology, frontend, backend, UI.