Microsoft Releases Teams for Linux

As a Linux and freedom lover, I think this is both good and bad.

Good because if you're going to use software as commercial as this, at least now you can use it on a privacy-focused OS environment (Linux). I appreciate that from MS.

Bad because this app appears to be closed-source - please correct me if I'm wrong - and people can get a false sense of security with offerings like Microsoft's, or other 'Linux' situations like China's spyware OS 'DeepIn', or indeed Android which is 'Linux' and yet spies on you too.

> this Teams launch could act as a bridge to improved Progressive Web App versions of Office

This, a deeper push to PWA, is the real meat in this. Also that, again, Microsoft is truly serious about Linux, if anyone was left wondering.

The Fluid paradigm, documents as apps, is an idea I've had myself — when going down to metadata rabbit hole with media tags, you end up on the other side of the paradigm, wanting each data object to be self-contained thus essentially "smart", functional, an application in its own right.

I think Google has a similar idea with the modularity in Fuschia; not sure if this applies to the data/logic dichotomy though or 'just' the logic structure and user 'stories', workflows.