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Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by fossuser on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:58PM (#23105978)
The vast majority of the Zoom software development team is based out of companies in China.

They do have support people in the US and a handful of non-support engineering which is why I said thanks and immediately updated the comment to say "majority" instead of "entire" since it's more correct.

That technicality is less relevant to the main point of the argument.

Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by damanamathos on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:12PM (#23110345)
They do have a large R&D presence in China.

As of January 2020, they had 2,532 full-time employees. Of those, 1,396 were in the US and 1,136 were in international locations. Within the 1,136 is "more than 700" employees in R&D in China.[1]

A LinkedIn search for "engineer" working for "Zoom Video Communications" in location "United States" shows up 558 results.[2]

Their entire management team is in the US, and of their 17 data centres, only 1 is in China.[3][4]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/0001... [2] https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrent... [3] https://zoom.us/team [4] https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/04/navigating-a-new-c...

Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by wutwutwutwut on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:41AM (#23111736)
My point was that you should check your facts before making an argument. Not exactly a crazy idea, right?
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by fossuser on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:41PM (#23116685)
Your “point” was to be an asshole, and congratulations you’ve now succeeded twice.
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase by wutwutwutwut on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:33PM (#23127228)
I think you're just being overly sensitive to criticism. Not admitting that you're bullshitting is very weak. Maybe the two goes hand in hand.