We often talk on this blog about large-scale migrations to LibreOffice, such as in the Austrian Military. But many small businesses are switching away from Microsoft, Google and other tech giants too. Today we’re talking to Mišo Oroz from Zerolock, a company in Italy that helps small businesses to switch to free and open source software (FOSS): Tell us a bit about what you do Zerolock is an IT company I founded in early 2026, based in Spirano, near Bergamo, in Lombardy. The focus is simple: migrating small businesses with 2 to 20 office workstations from proprietary systems to fully open source infrastructure. We use Linux workstations with KDE Plasma as the desktop environment, LibreOffice as the office suite, and a full stack of open source tools for collaboration, communication and security. Everything is self-hosted – everything is on European servers. There is no Microsoft and no vendor lock-in. What kinds of businesses are you helping to migrate to Linux and LibreOffice, and why do they want to switch? They are mostly non-technical environments: a logistics company, a construction company, a dental practice, a law firm. The trigger is rarely ideology. It is usually a combination of rising software costs,