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France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom (itsfoss.com)
submitted 6 months ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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La Suite Meet: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

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[–] 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Was worried they'd use it as a walled garden or a monitoring system. MIT license iirc allows forking, so at least if things go downhill, there are ways to mitigate it.

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  • [+] -16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    What’s the license on Firefox and why is it so impossible to create a fork of that browser that doesn’t suck?

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Nothing to do with license.

    Firefox is a massive piece of code and following modern browser standards is so difficult that it's a feat for big teams of developers and no small team seems to be able to pick the pace needed.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, one of the largest pieces of software humanity has created, next to Google Chrome and the Linux kernel, which are all around 30 million lines of code.

    To give a frame of reference: With a team of 5 full-time devs at my dayjob, we can dish out a codebase of about 20 thousand lines over the course of two years.

    A browser might be somewhat quicker to build, because the requirements are relatively clear at this point and you can start implementing many standards in parallel. But yeah, it's still just an insane amount of code.

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