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Posted by bwb 1/26/2026

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.(twitter.com)
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ginko 1/26/2026|
Gee, if only there had been a European market leader in instant messaging, voice over IP and video chat in the 2000s already. Then we could just use that instead of Microsoft Teams.
nasretdinov 1/26/2026|
Skype wasn't _that_ great at chat especially to be completely fair. But it definitely was okay for everything, that's for sure...
me551ah 1/26/2026||
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 1/26/2026|
Replicating the software is easy, running the services at AWS-scale is hard.
DrScientist 1/26/2026||
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.

mkcg 1/26/2026||
@see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766004
ChrisArchitect 1/26/2026||
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766004
learingsci 1/26/2026||
This would be a great thing for humanity as a whole, but not for France. So I doubt it will happen. Hope strings eternal.
Fanofilm 1/26/2026||
If they did it by growing open source competitors, it would be brilliant. Linux-equivalents for all major categories.
BLKNSLVR 1/26/2026||
Semi-related thought bubble:

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

2OEH8eoCRo0 1/26/2026||
For a fraction of what these products cost France could fund open source alternatives.

Edit: I'm not saying they don't.

0xADD1E 1/26/2026||
You mean something like LiveKit, with a basic implementation of user management etc such as https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet ?
_ache_ 1/26/2026|||
They do. « we are committed to contributing back to the LiveKit community whenever feasible ».
saubeidl 1/26/2026|||
The tool they're building is open source: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
well_ackshually 1/26/2026||
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aiauthoritydev 1/26/2026|
Indians are doing the same too.
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