I think it's a bigger commitment than a lot of tech people like to think it is, and I say that as someone who has worked in IT for over 20 years now. Most lay people have no idea just how big the educational technology ecosystem really is. There's a patchwork of sometimes questionably maintained FLOSS tools that can kind-of-almost work for some things if you are willing to roll your own plugins and patches, but it takes a major org like Canonical who supports Ubuntu or something equivalent to extend and maintain even the basics. It's not the wild west out here anymore, and major companies and government departments aren't willing to spend a lot of time and money exploring options or extend some patience while we work out the bugs. We need paid professionals building extensive platforms, and that means either we roll our own tech behemoths the way China did (unlikely) or we admit we need to set up a crown corp and pay for it out of the public purse, because again, no one on earth is going to invest in sovereign Canadian goods when you can make 10x the profit south of the border.