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Posted by bwb 16 hours ago

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.(twitter.com)
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Fanofilm 12 hours ago|
If they did it by growing open source competitors, it would be brilliant. Linux-equivalents for all major categories.
BLKNSLVR 12 hours ago||
Semi-related thought bubble:

I wonder what would happen if EU countries started encouraging ad blocking via their ISP DNS servers?

me551ah 15 hours ago||
Replicating features from existing software has become extremely easy due to AI. I won’t be surprised if open source is able to easily catch up with the bigger products.
this_user 15 hours ago|
Replicating the software is easy, running the services at AWS-scale is hard.
DrScientist 14 hours ago||
Would you need to though?

If an organisation ran it's own instance, it would only need to scale for that organisation ( including any external attends over a bridge ).

That does of course assume companies have the expertise/appetite to run things themselves.

cranberryturkey 3 hours ago||
They should just fund pairux
aussiegreenie 7 hours ago||
Jit.si supports the EU privacy rules
xutopia 15 hours ago||
Don't believe this has anything other than to do with the USA's recent attacks on NATO countries.
sharyphil 12 hours ago||
"You know what they call Zoom in Paris?"

"What do they call it?"

"Le Zoom"

aiauthoritydev 14 hours ago||
Indians are doing the same too.
ThePowerOfFuet 14 hours ago||
https://xcancel.com/lellouchenico/status/2015775970330882319

Which itself links to:

https://www.numerama.com/cyberguerre/2167301-la-france-veut-...

weinzierl 12 hours ago|
I live and work in Germany and know many people across Europe. Admittedly more in Western Europe, and admittedly my bubble leans toward traditional industries.

I see a lot of talk about "sovereignty" and "European software". What I don’t see is action.

Does anyone working in Europe actually see signs that people are taking this seriously?

202508042147 12 hours ago||
Well, my company is! I just migrated this weekend our database from AWS RDS to a Hetzner VPS with Volumes. It's a small step, but it works for us and it is way cheaper!
jopsen 10 hours ago|||
> What I don’t see is action.

Building serious products and services in this space is easily 5 year investment, by that time there will be a new US administration.

Hope is not a strategy, but it's certainly cheaper in the short run.

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But have you divested from US assets?

Maybe one should, considering we just deployed armed troops with live ammunition to scare of America.

I fear we don't know how close this was. Maybe, we'll know in 50 years.

Einenlum 12 hours ago||
Same. French here. I can't stand hearing these words anymore, when at the same time I read that the French intelligence services closed a 5-year deal with Palantir.
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