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France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom (itsfoss.com)

submitted 5 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/opensource@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42562289

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

It is an MIT-licensed open source app that...

People never learn. If this gets popular, some proprietary fork (probably owned by a US company) will win, become incompatible with the open source version, and maybe even hire the original devs and kill off the original project.

He might be wrong about many things (like a child's ability to consent), but Stallman was certainly right about software licensing.