The COVID-19 pandemic hugely accelerated digital collaboration in businesses across industries and geographies. We’re all familiar with working from home and, for the most part, the companies we work for have learned to adapt. As a result, cloud-based proprietary code platforms such as Office 365, Dropbox, and Slack have and continue to explode in popularity. Here’s the catch though: By using these platforms, all of your data, communication, and digital lives will be (or already are) at the mercy of big corporations without control, privacy and with a huge vendor lock-in.