France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

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29 points·mikece··7 comments

I skimmed the article and it feels like they're comparing apples (Visio) to oranges (MS teams, zoom). One begin a software product, the other being a service.

There's a fair amount of work to be done before the French infrastructure runs this service as reliably as current commercial offerings.

(Not saying it's undoable, but this isn't the drop in replacement the article seems to imply)

They aren't comparing apples to oranges because they are not making a comparison, they are just informing that French government built their own meeting app to replace Zoom and Teams.

And they are already running it, replacing both Zoom and Teams, and not only them, but La Suite Numerique includes other software as well.

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767668

For teams and zoom, the problem isn’t the tech. It’s the audio patents required for a good experience.

> It’s the audio patents required for a good experience.

So that's why the audio sometimes sucks in Teams: they are not using the right patents.

I can’t speak to Teams specifically, but I have worked on heavily licensed audio stacks and open ones like WebRTC.

Try out WebRTC and compare it with Google Meet. While meet is based on WebRTC, the patents licensed for audio make a huge difference.

Did they replicate the Slack, Calendar (Outlook) and Office (365) parts of Teams, or just the Skype/Zoom part?

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