France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials
cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/19676136
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Gotta admire France for not only calling for domestic alternatives, but for consistently funding and implementing domestic alternatives.
They've been doing that in many sectors for a while. It's almost a tradition of theirs. For example, they're the only country despite the USA and China capable of completely domestically manufacturing a fighter jet.
As a Swede, I sure know that, we like to yell about building our own fighter jet, but we are completely dependent on the US for mainly the engine, but several other components.
I hope we can collaborate with France or the UK for another engine with less restrictions.
Rolls Royce has produced new engines for the Gripen
Have they been certified? I thought they were just testing them
Haha, collaborating with France on defence? Forget it.
You can ask them whether they'd like to take your money and allowing you to follow their orders, and they might agree to that. Might. If you ask in perfect French.
It's time for unity between Europeans, not mockery.
It is not mockery, it is based in fact. Read on the Eurofighter and the Rafale, or on the Leclerc and the Leopard 2, or the many other examples.
I'm sure you're right about that. What I mean is that any annoyances we have with our neighbors from the past, we should try to LEAVE behind, and try to work together from now on, for a new and unified Europe ☺️
This I agree with!
Replace a Microsoft product by a domestic product with the same name as another Microsoft product. It's kinda funny not gonna lie.
The headline "France replaces MS Teams with Visio" would be really confusing (but funny).
I gather that it seems more reasonable in french
It's really called Visio, as an abbreviation of the French word visioconférence.
Nice
and Paris too
Lol
Good on them, but I Wonder why they can't just build on top of something open source like Nextcloud.
It already has the majority of the Office-365 suite
I'd sooner see them integrate with https://cryptpad.fr/ which is another (jointly) French funded project to provide a secure collaborative office environment. I think this French Visio mostly targets (video) conferencing rather than the entire office suite.
There is already La Suite Docs for documents.
Ah, that sits at an interesting spot between collaborative Obsidian and classic Word. I only just noticed their other existing products but knew of CryptPad from earlier posts. I think it's great to see these alternatives pop up so we don't funnel ourselves into the next monopoly.
It's built with https://github.com/livekit/livekit
In such moments I wish our government had balls, too.
I am always wondering why there is no standard for video conferencing?
We can be glad that the telephone was not invented in our times...
You are so right.
The ongoing shitfuckery by the US in forcing their corporations to hand over sovereign-nation data hosted in other nations datacenters (CLOUD Act), amongst many of their present stupidities, is fucking amazing for IT sovereignty and open source.
I couldn't have convinced the organizations and businesses I worked with in the past to move to more than a few niche open source products for tiny userbases, which I made sure they donated to. To suggest moving to a solution outside of the Garner Magic Quadrant for that particular business need / role for anything larger than dozen users was just "objectively illogical", I couldn't have put forth a winning business case proposal in 100 years.
But now they're doing it out of spite to the US government and finally seeing the light.
There's a lot of bad things going on in the world, but this.. this is great.
The same movement is visible in the Netherlands. In Germany, a couple of states are going down this road, but they’re not doing enough. Which is weird, because the Germans are very concerned about data protection, yet they do not mind if their medical data is in some US cloud…
Is it open source?
Yes
Great move, awesome!!!! What about replacing copilot with mistral?
What critical features do those LLMs have that need to be replaced?
Ingesting data from people inside the government.
MS Copilot is a piece of trash no matter the angle you look at it.
Exactly my thoughts. It doesn‘t need replacement it just needs to be dropped.
Wholesome.
how does that work with IT departments? ours dont know and have no interest in knowing about anything but microsoft ecosystem. attitude is pretty endemic in aussie.
If it is to be implemented in the french public system, it will be enforced by strict orders. IT disliking it will be of no concern.
I expect pandemic-levels of stubbornness, pettiness and relentless bitching.
But meanwhile the Education and Health public sector made big contracts with Microsoft.
We are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform and people are cheering at the government for making its own sovereign video app for public officials...
Amazing first steps! Finally Europe is waking up.
I am pretty sure that Microsoft won't let them use the name of one of their products for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visio
I just hope the rest of the project is more well-grounded than the name selection seems to have been...
In french this kind of applications are used for "Visioconférence" so I doubt they could do anything about this
https://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/visioconf%C3%A9rence.html
In this case it might be the biggest "Fuck You" towards Microsoft that they could think of - and I am totally into that! :-)
I agree. But it is a draft name. I am sure they will come up with something better.