To be fair, I find the idea of a government outsourcing IT needs to entities under the sovereignty of foreign governments kind of fundamentally problematic to begin with.
Anything that kicks big tech’s teeth in is good.
ohh i can’t express how much i like that image.
OuiChat
Every 2-3 years, the French government announces that they released a brand new homemade app that will replace some bigtech because sovereignty or whatever bureaucratic bullshit communication they fancy at the moment. Then they issue a BIG contract to an IT consulting company to develop the thing, who get tons of money to send junior devs to release a buggy tool that no one will ever use because migrations cost a lot. This new app will die like the others.
All this instead of just hiring a few senior devs to contribute to any of the number of existing open source projects that are already infinitely better than any new thing they will come up with.
the french do make some great stuff tho like cryptpad or mobilizon - the problem is usually always the same tho. it’s in french and they only give half a shit about their french users, anyone else is considered an obstacle.
heck i’ve been playing dofus for 20 years and the non-french community is always shafted. always.
It’s made by the DINUM, not an outside consulting company. And the product made by the DINUM (Tchap, France Connect …) are still in use.
I doubt that there are significant development teams at the DINUM. They coordinate projects but do not build anything. On LinkedIn, here are the main skills associated with the company:
Yes because the department of the DINUM that made it, the « Opérateur de produits interministériels » is only one of it’s many department. I can link you multiple French article that explain it was developed by the DINUM. Please research a little bit before posting, looking for skills on LinkedIn means nothing. Also the French entrepreneurs that usually get contracts for this were very angry about it.
Why do european tech companies need to call their products the same name as already established american products. Don’t they google the names before they make the decision?
tech companies
The French government is not a tech company.
Debatable
Visio is an outdated spreadsheet name, in English.
Visio is the new video conferencing software, in French.
France leads the world, it is up to everyone else to worry about conflict with France, not the other way around. /s
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It’s the French common name for this, visioconférence. Why would they care about Microsoft products for this?
We don’t do google here ok
It’s uncouth and unfashionable, the French prefer to get information by sticking their head out of the window whilst wildly waving a baguette and yelling: “Quoi de neuf ?”
american law is relative, who cares
It’s opensource ! https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
It’s open source and they have documentation for self-hosting it !
uhhhh on github :(
… What’s wrong with GitHub?
The software that’s made to escape Microsoft’s ecosystem is being hosted on Microsoft’s GitHub.
Can’t tell of sarcasm or serious, damn Poe’s law.
Underrated comment
Stop replying on U.S. companies for technologies that provide the backbone of our governments!
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They already developed alternatives for Microsoft Office:
https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/docs as an alternative to word
https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/grist as an alternative for excel and data management (much better than excel in my opinion)
It’s open source, actively developed with Germany and the Netherlands (as I’m writing this post the last commit to doc was 49min ago) and self hostableby any administration or company who want to do it.
not an english word in sight. must have super potential for becoming a new standard to replace ms office.
If you were not a troll you would have seen that all the technical documentation about how to contribute and how to host an instance in the repository is in English. The code is well documented 100% in English.
It make sense however that pages for users is in French, since it’s been developed for French users. If you want Geraldine, the secretary of the tax office in Trifouilly les Oies to use it, you need to address her in French.
They could just use https://www.opendesk.eu/en and join the German D-Stack https://gitlab.opencode.de/dstack/d-stack-home
Nah, a little healthy competition is good for growth.
The tone of these comments as weird.
I agree, it was the same on reddit.
i wonder if Isreal designed it for them.
If it is Israel it’s the same picture
Who tells them that “Visio” is already a trademark?
Do you know what happens to trademarks and patents when a country starts threatening its (previous) allies with military invasion and tradewars, and start undermining the values of those allies? You’re right! It goes into the square hole! Heck, maybe I’m going to start a new software company tomorrow called Microsoft, and then threaten left and right with all crazy shit if anybody complains. Nobody will care about US trademarks since US disqualified itself by now.
Trademarks don’t matter when it’s only for internal use.
By Microsoft, no less.
I’m 100% in favor of this. Erode that trademark!
Probably not an enforceable trademark in France.
It is, and I genuinely worry that Microsoft will bitch about it.
https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/FR500000098727661
It’s literally a generic word for video call.
They might have registered it but in the EU it’s not enforceable in the context of video calls.
If Microsoft tries to defend it in that context they could lose it in all contexts.
It is, and I genuinely worry that Microsoft will bitch about it.
The software is called Meet. Visio is just the name of the name of the government platform Meet is running on which is internal use only.
No mention of Capgemini on the announcement, there’s a chance this will actually ship!
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Never heard of jitsi?
