Re: MS Teams and Windows 11

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Il 26/06/21 10:01, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss ha scritto:


I am not sure if the FSF legal department can take a look at this, as it 
may be something that the FSF, FSFE, EFF and others need to scrutinize 
to see if there is a violation in competition law.


AFAIK the European Commission is "looking at it" since last year.

«The European Commission confirmed it received the complaint and said it 
will “assess it under our standard procedure.”  Slack General Counsel 
David Schellhase told reporters that the company is also “having 
conversations with relevant U.S.” authorities,” adding it’s not ruling 
out actions in other jurisdictions.  “Microsoft is reverting to past 
behavior,” said Schellhase in the statement. The company “created a 
weak, copycat product and tied it to their dominant Office product, 
force installing it and blocking its removal, a carbon copy of their 
illegal behavior during the browser wars.”»


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/slack-takes-on-rival-microsoft-with-antitrust-complaint-to-eu

The idea that Teams is "a copycat product" is a distraction (Slack is 
just one chat system like dozens others), but the tie-in argument has teeth.


Federico

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Re: MS Teams and Windows 11

[Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss]

On 26/06/2021 08:04, Jean Louis wrote:

* Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss  
[2021-06-26 10:02]:

In the mean time,

https://test.bigbluebutton.org/

is a useful link to allow people to try out Big Blue Button,  lets promote
the alternatives, of course there is also jit.si but BBB is designed for
education,  esp as if a BBB instance can be hosted in different
jurisdictions (such as in the EU/UK) then the GDPR apples.

Just thought I would highlight this.  If a barrier to people using free and
open source software is a perceived lack of tools,  is it due to the lack of
tools or lack of awareness of alternatives.   Most people have never heard
of Big Blue Button or Jit.si for example.


There is also OpenMeetings

Apache OpenMeetings Project – Installation
https://openmeetings.apache.org/installation.html

Jean

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Thanks for this, having a range of options is a good thing, I will make 
a blog post that links to all 3.  To at least promote the alternatives. 
  Granted this is a personal blog butt if it helps to spread the word 
then that is a good thing surely.


Paul
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