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France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials (presse.economie.gouv.fr)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

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[–] 23 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Inb4 MS sues them for using Visio as their product name.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Visio is a common french term for videoconferencing. Maybe it’ll get struck down as long as it doesn’t include diagramming?

    Also, will French law allow a service or trade mark on a common term?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Exactly what went through my head

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I though WHY? would you call your product that when its already and established brand. I get that its a great name but its been used for years

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    The Github repo is called "meet". So maybe they named it Meet then thought, "Oh no, Google will sue us, let's choose a different name like... Visio!"

    They should really call it Visio Zoom Meet for Teams that Excel.

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