MS Teams and Windows 11

[Paul Sutton]

Hi All

I found something interesting in a BBC news article with regard to MS 
teams and Windows 11.

It seems that Teams will be even more integrated in to the next release 
of windows.   I am not a legal expert.  However this could once again 
prove to be a monopoly grab for MS and just highlights they don't get it 
when it comes to un competitive practice.  MS have been in court for 
Anti trust violations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57597352

I am not sure if the FSF legal department can take a look at this, as it 
may be something that the FSF, FSFE, EFF and others need to scrutinize 
to see if there is a violation in competition law.

I can't see the people behind zoom being very happy about this either, 
so we should perhaps be more vocal about it, but more to the promotion 
of alternative.


In the mean time,

https://test.bigbluebutton.org/

is a useful link to allow people to try out Big Blue Button,  lets 
promote the alternatives, of course there is also jit.si but BBB is 
designed for education,  esp as if a BBB instance can be hosted in 
different jurisdictions (such as in the EU/UK) then the GDPR apples.

Just thought I would highlight this.  If a barrier to people using free 
and open source software is a perceived lack of tools,  is it due to the 
lack of tools or lack of awareness of alternatives.   Most people have 
never heard of Big Blue Button or Jit.si for example.

Hope this helps

Regards

Paul Sutton


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