SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns

Re:SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns by tomcooks on Thursday April 02, 2020 @06:23AM (#22757622)

Only recommend free software, this way you minimize reputation drama

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Re:SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns by mmm_grayons on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:53AM (#22758360)

Sadly, my experience has been the opposite, because open-source stuff usually takes more work to run and is seldom as polished, and users hate that. I rarely, if ever, recommend open-source anything for end-user use. Zoom did well because it had the least hassle of any solution, hands-down. I'm not saying it's impossible to subscribe to a hosted open-source service that's as good, but it doesn't exist yet.

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Re:SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns by tomcooks on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:45AM (#22760268)

https://meet.jit.si/roomname123

where's the hassle? or the lack of shine? it works better than any other proprietary service

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Re:SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns by criley2 on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:13AM (#22758148)

Generally speaking, free software UX is so bad that I would never recommend it to most people I talk to because

1) I don't want to train them on it

2) I don't want to support them on it

3) It isn't good enough for them to use without 1-2

So I pick the shiny costly commercial version that comes with training and support.

I mean, I've done the recommend my parents and older coworkers use difficult OSS software thing in my past, and I honestly regret it. No one won.

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