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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by quadrifoliate on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:49PM (#46876267)
Gotta give them props for all the English. I know that can't have been easy.

Now they just need to change the name so it's not so obviously French, and invite collaboration from the other large EU countries. I wonder how many Dutch or German will think of "La Suite Numerique" as an EU-wide office suite.

Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by input_sh on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:01PM (#46876432)
That website is specifically to explain it to French audiences.

German version is here, but unlike France they're mostly boosting already-existing German open source software (like Nextcloud and Open Xchange): https://opencode.de/en/home

I don't know how the Netherlands really fits into all of this, but I know they're one of the biggest funders of open source projects in general via NLnet. Seriously, their list of projects they've given money to is ridiculously comprehensive, you're going to struggle naming some that are not listed here: https://nlnet.nl/project/index.html

Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by econ on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:52PM (#46877116)
je maintiendrai!
Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by Vinnl on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:14PM (#46892608)
FWIW, NLNet is distributing EU funds, not Dutch funds.

That said, the Dutch government is collaborating with La Suite (fr) and OpenDesk (de): https://minbzk.github.io/mijn-bureau/

Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by latexr on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:53PM (#46877148)
> Gotta give them props for all the English. I know that can't have been easy.

Why not? Plenty of French people speak English at a native level.

Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by phito on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:36PM (#46878348)
As a francophone, I can tell you that the vast majority doesn't.
Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by eloisant on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:50PM (#46878529)
Among software developers, the vast majority does.
Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by phito on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:15AM (#46884930)
definitely not at a native level...
Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by latexr on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:05AM (#46886702)
Why are you nitpicking this? Are all French people incompetent laggards at speaking English? No, definitely not. There’s nothing about being French which makes you incapable of typing English text and maybe even *gasp* using a spell and grammar checker. The GitHub org shows seven people, is it so hard to believe they’re not absolute dolts at English? Why are you hell bent on insulting yourself?

https://github.com/orgs/suitenumerique/people

Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by ta20240528 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:49AM (#46881946)
"Now they just need to change the name so it's not so obviously French"

Where I live names that aren't so obviously American have an advantage.

Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by NLMichel on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:09AM (#46883899)
Is the German version of La Suite: OpenDesk? Because to me (Dutch) I like the OpenDesk name better.
Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by michelb on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @02:09AM (#46882489)
The Dutch are also working on this: https://minbzk.github.io/mijn-bureau/
Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by brnt on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:02AM (#46883369)
Which uses LaSuite.
Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by OJFord on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:33AM (#46883603)
The Dutch would probably use it no problem without even noticing it was French, same way they would if it were German, or English.