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      I couldn’t find any particular justification going through their website and other communication, it’s not perfect but it’s probably not that big a deal for an open source project to host their code there? If I remember I’ll try to send them a message asking about it

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    Why would they name it “Visio”? That is already the name of a different Microsoft product.

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    That’s one good place I want to see tax payer money going. Would be nice if a more governments join in and make big corpo irrelevant.

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      Well, I wish you could just say that, but “the French” is not a consistent body of people.

      While we have this team working on a sovereign suite, Macron is rushing a law to ban <15 years old on social network, so… they will soon require all users to provide an ID. It will have to go through a “trusted third-party”, not directly to Meta/Twitter/etc., and not to the gov directly, but we all know how much corporates and governments have been trustworthy historically. And once the data is collected, you’re just one law away from all abuse.

      Needless to say that the teen will rush to VPN, so they also mentioned a potential ban on VPNs! (France would then join the short-list of great democratic VPN-banning countries: North Korea, China, Iran…)

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    That’s one good place I want to see tax payer money going. Would be nice if a more governments join in and make big corpo irrelevant.

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    I get that government use needs to be stringently tested for security, and so things take a little longer. But really, there are PLENTY of good FOSS products in existence that can be used as a base framework and a head-start to things like this.

    You don’t have to re-invent the wheel when you could easily fork Jitsi-meet and harden it/secure it to your needs in the government.

    Jitsi is one of my top 5 FOSS projects that are basically already mature enough to be used in a professional setting

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    Nota bene how the description omits the world “encryption”. Timeo Frenchmen et dona ferentes