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SUSE exec blurts that the company uses Teams (www.theregister.com)
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SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS – but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn't practice what it preaches. It's not alone.

For this vulture, the single most amusing revelation from any of the industry speakers at this year's Open Source Policy Summit was from SUSE's Dominic Laurie, who moderated the final panel discussion of the day, "Sovereignty and Procurement."

The panel ended a few minutes before the scheduled time, and he closed it with a surprising comment:

We'll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings!

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First, Teams works well on Linux. I have been a desktop Linux user since the 90’s and I use Teams every day (week days at least).

Second, that does not mean they use Teams as their preferred collaboration software.

Even on Windows, you use what the meeting organizer used to schedule the meeting. And if you interact with external companies, you are going to be joining Teams meetings regardless of your preferences.

And, if you had to make a reference you thought everybody would get, Teams or Zoom seem like your best bet.

So making reference to something someone one would say in Teams is not exactly Ronald McDonald admitting he eats at Wendy’s.

If Teams IS their preferred solution, I think the bigger deal may be a European company relying on a US cloud provider, even more than proprietary vs FOSS. At least, that is my view.

I would love a great Open Source video conferencing option to emerge and become popular though. As above, this kind of software has network effects and I would rather get invited to Open Source meetings if possible.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Can confirm. Had a job interview and pulled out an old windows computer as a backup just in case.

Teams worked flawlessly on Linux, not a single hiccup.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have had calls with SUSE sales reps because I'm in the enterprise space, can confirm they use Google meet and Google workspace in general. Still not FOSS, but not Microsoft.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've had calls with them on Zoom as well. They kind of just use whatever the customer wants to use imho.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Obviously most companies will join whatever meeting invite they get sent but all the meetings they've created with me are via meet (we normally use teams)

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Smells like a nothing burger. The Moderator most certainly has to use MS Teams for communicating with those that do not use FOSS; or he picked it up from other colleagues.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

He's the Senior Director of Corporate Communications. "Teams" is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests more than that he occasionally uses it reluctantly when someone insists on it.

Red Hat and Canonical also get mentioned. Consider my inclination to stick with Debian once again reinforced.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

For corperate distros (so anything you need to work and not just want to work, ) SUSE is the last torchbearer of full FOSS.

But honestly thank the community for Debian, Arch, and Guix for keeping the community stuff awesome for the rest of us

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“Teams” is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests [...]

People who haven't touched Google with a ten-foot pole for years still "google" stuff in general conversation because that's what people generally understand. People who never used Twitter (or that modern renamed far-right bot paradise) talk about stuff that got "tweeted".

So no... associating colloquial use of terms with actual habits doesn't work well.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Debian is the slow and steady turtle of distros.

Also, most fancy innovations get ported upstream anyway... Eventually

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That quote doesn't mean they always use Teams, they may have clients that only use teams and so are forced to comply to client.

I would hope internally they have a Jitsi server

[–] poinck@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Or BigBlueButton

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's less about using something proprietary as much as using something so excrementally terrible as Teams.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Other products have incremental upgrades

Teams gets excremental "upgrades"

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 days ago

We'll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings!

I don't think this is enough evidence to show they use Teams. At work we say "zoom calls" and use Google Meet. It could very well be someone's catch-all term for video call meetings in general

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it necessarily means anything. Teams is very well-known.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's also the worst of the absolute worst and I will never understand why anyone would WANT to use it

I use it because I don't have a choice. Want to work with government? Government uses teams, so fuxk your choices..

But given the choice? I'd rather roll around in olive oil to then jump into a lion's den than use teams

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its really not that bad.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

This. It's inferior to slack by every metric except outlook/exchange integration, but it's perfectly usable and apparently much cheaper.

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago

Somewhat related - who came up with the idea of stuffing all that domain verification tokens directly into TXT records for the domain?

Just querying the TXT record of a domain might give you an idea what products a company is using...