France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by toomuchtodo on Monday January 26, 2026 @12:47PM (#46768928)

The EU can also ban access to US products, once EU alternatives are available, for example. "National security" or whatever PR is needed to make the case.

I'm unsure the EU could build and require anything worse than Teams, considering the open source landscape for that product category, for example. The primitives exist, scale them up and lock out US companies from the EU market with policy. Recycle the capital internally, just like VC funds do with their portfolio companies.

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Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by irusensei on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:11PM (#46770124)

I'm absolutely against banning usage of computer programs and platforms BUT I would rally for getting Teams banned from the face of the earth and applying a law to prevent Microsoft to attempt to create or acquire any kind of communicator for the next 50 years.

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