Wholesome.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
In such moments I wish our government had balls, too.
Fk yeah! Kill Microsoft, google and Meta
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.
It’s built with https://github.com/livekit/livekit
Nice
and Paris too
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.
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.
But meanwhile the Education and Health public sector made big contracts with Microsoft.
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_VisioI just hope the rest of the project is more well-grounded than the name selection seems to have been…
I agree. But it is a draft name. I am sure they will come up with something better.
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/visioconférence.html
In this case it might be the biggest “Fuck You” towards Microsoft that they could think of - and I am totally into that! :-)
