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

Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by TulliusCicero on Monday January 26, 2026 @03:26PM (#46771009)

Not sure why you're being downvoted, Europe has been mostly bad at software and services for a long time now. There's a reason Linus lives in Oregon.

There's always this occasional chatter about being more competitive, and certainly some good ideas -- for example, the Draghi Report -- but then nothing happens, or you get a few half measures at most.

I guess the one upside of Trump being such an aggressive jackass is that it might finally provide enough impetus for European countries to take further integration more seriously.

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Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by einr on Monday January 26, 2026 @04:42PM (#46771961)

There's a reason Linus lives in Oregon.

What is the reason Linus lives in Oregon? By his own admission, 90% of his workday is reading and answering email. We have email in Europe, so that can’t be it.

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Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by albuic on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:11PM (#46773690)

Europe has good software companies. It's just that the US has bigger VC funding which makes European companies unable to compete when US/EU companies are "fighting".

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