They've already invested in Matrix. Why not use that?

I work at a French research institute and our Zoom contract ends soon so we get to switch to Visio. It's not too bad but quite tier below Zoom. Noise cancellation is not great, being browser based also comes with limitations, in half my meetings people don't manage to find the permissions to allow mic and/or webcam ...

Finally the year of Minitel on the desktop!

@see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766004

Every country should ban American social networks and messaging tools ASAP

It's baffling that the E.U. and others (corporations anywhere really) keep using and paying for Zoom when Jitsi and Nextcloud Talk are free and work very well. This is not a political issue, but one of data sovereignty.

Instead of these politics driven projects that usually fail at least partially what tends to succeed is if an angry nerd starts a project to replace something with free alternative, such as Linux, VLC, ffmpeg, ...

Jit.si supports the EU privacy rules

This is the kind of thing France often wants to do yet never implements.