France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

Post by bananasandrice » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

atomtamadas wrote: post #77

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, ...

Post by nehal3m » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

idontwantthis wrote: post #78

nehal3m wrote: post #28

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Why wait? If you can get a work visa you might as well, independent of this push. English proficiency in France isn't amazing though (speaking as a Dutchman that visits France most summers), so learning French would be a big help.

Do you have a suggestion of where to begin looking? Doesn't have to be France either.

Post by jetbalsa » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

cmiles8 wrote: post #100

harikb wrote: post #94

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Products don't necessarily win on merit. Microsoft Teams "won" entirely because it was given away free with Office. Even though it is acceptable these days, it was horrible when it started. There is no way it could have won without unlimited backing from a bigger force. You have to see EU trying these things in the same light.

Sure, Betamax was technically superior to VHS. But in the end the market still decides… nobody said “better” means technically superior… just something people want to use an other options available to them. “Good enough” with attractive value to the individual/business typically wins.

Post by duxup » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

omnimus wrote: post #101

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It's funny that it's such a blatant knock-off of Google Workspace - the repos even have the same names: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet I wonder if the emoji will grow into its own set: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet/blob/main/src/fronten...

It doesn't matter. Office suites are a commodity. Google suite is knockoff of MS Office at certain point in time. That's just the nature of digital - information want's to be free.

Post by electronsoup » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

cmiles8 wrote: post #70

I wish them luck, but while saying folks will drop the dominant apps seems all the rage at the moment people have been saying this for decades with almost no real progress at scale. The only way to accomplish this at scale is to build something that is legit better and let the market decide. Anything else is just principled wishful thinking.