Considering moving to France so I never have to use the rotting garbage that is Microsoft Teams every single day
This just applies to the French government, unless you land a public job it’s likely you’d still have to deal with that shit.
Still, it’s good news and lets hope it sets a trend.
Not hope let’s make it a trend everywhere even in the States!
“Europe is the American tech sector’s biggest market after the United States itself. It all depends on trust. Trust requires dialogue,” Smith said.
Trust has been destroyed from the top. Trust is easy to loose and hard to gain
France, Germany and The Netherlands are co-developing an open source suite of collaborative components for their government employees. La suite numérique is the French version, Opendesk is the German, and Mijn Bureau is the Dutch. I find that pretty amazing and I wouldn’t have hoped for anything better!
They really should GPL it all. The US will steal it and create AWS services
At least for the German one, it’s essentially a rebranding of existing open source products packaged/adapted to work as a suite.
For example, for editing documents they are using Collabora online (Libreoffice-based), for chat it’s Matrix, for storage Nextcloud, email & calendar from Ox Cloud, etc.
There’s even more open source stuff!
Now if only we could get a Call of Duty Black Ops 1 Zombies open source alternative /s and hopium
Until they cancel the French government contract with Palentir , this is a show of Fake digital sovereignty
If France actually follows through with Zoom and Teams, it will be a significant step toward digital sovereignty.
