The good folks at FSFE maintain a wiki page with Free Software alternatives: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/FreeSoftware4RemoteWorking
I should point out that in the SPDX calls we don't actually use video -- it's audio and screen sharing. -- zvr -----Original Message----- From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org <Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> On Behalf Of James Bottomley Sent: Tuesday, 14 April, 2020 06:35 To: Kyle Mitchell <k...@kemitchell.com> Cc: atwo...@amazon.com; Kate Stewart <kstew...@linuxfoundation.org>; Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org; s...@lists.spdx.org Subject: Re: Chime instead of Zoom, a modest proposal On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 20:55 -0700, Kyle Mitchell wrote: > Others have more religious affinity for the Linux desktop. Wow that's a blast from the early part of this millenium. Since Linux now runs over 80% of the world's computing resources, I thought we'd got over stigmatizing people who actually run it on their desktops. It's not for want of others trying: my workplace keeps sending me windows laptops, but they aren't really useful for my daily activities and it turns out that if you don't switch them on very often, they simply stop working and eventually the capital expense isn't worth it. > But I haven't seen any libre option that stacks up to Zoom's > reliability. Other closed competitors---Hangouts especially---never > met that bar, either. Well, I'm glad you asked ... so far the most promising fully open trial is this one: https://bigbluebutton.org/ But the trials are still ongoing so that's by no means the final answer. It's actually somewhat obvious: bigbluebutton was developed for teaching remotely in under resourced schools, so of course they brought it up on a free (as in beer) OS because everything else was cost prohibitive. No one's heard of it because their advertising budget matches the available resources ... James Intel Deutschland GmbH Registered Address: Am Campeon 10-12, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany Tel: +49 89 99 8853-0, www.intel.de Managing Directors: Christin Eisenschmid, Gary Kershaw Chairperson of the Supervisory Board: Nicole Lau Registered Office: Munich Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 186928 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2783): https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/message/2783 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/72996299/21656 Group Owner: spdx-legal+ow...@lists.spdx.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
