That's a fair point about E2EE. For a communication tool, it's a critical piece of trust. But what I find compelling about an open-source alternative is the transparency it offers. Even without E2EE right out of the gate, the ability for anyone to inspect the code, audit for vulnerabilities, and contribute to its improvement builds a different kind of trust. It shifts trust from a corporate promise to a community verifiable fact. That's a fundamental win for public infrastructure, even if there are still features to build out.

Any exec who makes people use that should be fired

"How can we make slack even worse?"

Care to elaborate?
I know many people who use Teams at work, and they aren't complaining. Quite the opposite actually. Various announcements are no longer emails since they have been migrated to relevant Teams channels. This means that it's way faster to scroll past announcements that are not particularly relevant to your work, and none of them clog up your inbox any more.

The only real problem is CPU and RAM usage, but as long as your IT department is reasonably funded, that's not a problem either.

I believe this was mostly about stability with 100+ meeting participants. This is second hand information though.

Have you tried selfhosting it? For me, it was unusable, despite a beefy cloud server, even for just 2 people. And thats ignoring setup complexity.

This one is optimized and kubernetes ready, which makes it super easy. Will try out soon.

As others said, large meetings with many video feeds at the same time.

It's American.

Well, I wish you could just say that, but "the French" is not a consistent body of people.

While we have this team working on a sovereign suite, Macron is rushing a law to ban <15 years old on social network, so… they will soon require all users to provide an ID. It will have to go through a "trusted third-party", not directly to Meta/Twitter/etc., and not to the gov directly, but we all know how much corporates and governments have been trustworthy historically. And once the data is collected, you're just one law away from all abuse.

Needless to say that the teen will rush to VPN, so they also mentioned a potential ban on VPNs! (France would then join the short-list of great democratic VPN-banning countries: North Korea, China, Iran…)

Can we be like the Beneluxians or Scandinavians instead?

Folks, you won't believe how yuge these discounts are. The biggliest discounts ever. Many people are saying they've never seen one as big as this. Also, new 500% tarrifs on anyone who doesn't buy office365.

My guess would be that its because La Suite tries to replace all of Microsoft Office and having all the moving parts under your organisations control makes it easier to create a fully integrated office suite that offers the same UX throughout. Also Jitsi is owned by 8x8, a US company, which might have factored into the decision to create something new.

The development is quite transparent. The team is looking at reduced development and more integration, so instead of "pouring money on a project", they tried various solutions, and picked the "best one".

One criteria was an integration with their internal communication system: Tchap, essentially a Matrix server. The Matrix video call group didn't cut it because it requires ElementX, and apparently there are unresolved issue there (no idea if it's the app itself or due to customization of their Matrix server). They ended up with Visio, that is not a "new" solution: it's based on LiveKit.

https://github.com/tchapgouv/tchap-product/issues/259

Also, French engineering has a habit of turning sound concepts into messy overengineerd but underbuilt results

Any example ?

My guess is because of this: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/voice-ai-engine-and-openai-partner-livekit-hits-1b-valuation/

Because it's free, convenient, and works. And it's a git project so the code is already distributed, so if Trump has another tantrum and decides the EU can't use any American tech, the deleted PRs and issues would be annoying but we'll still have the code.

I couldn't find any particular justification going through their website and other communication, it's not perfect but it's probably not that big a deal for an open source project to host their code there? If I remember I'll try to send them a message asking about it

It is hard when they continually bribe your government

Because that's the French word for it, a visioconférence.

An incentive for the users to also drop Microsoft products, starting with Visio?

Look, no offense, but had you check the github Readme, or the previous comments, as it is mentioned several times, and you would have found that it is just an integration of LiveKit in their internal communication system, called Tchap, and Tchap is just a customized non-federated Matrix server.

No wheel reinvented.

It's literally the third word on the github readme of the project linked I'm the post :

Powered by LiveKit

Lovekiy is an open source framework for voice and video conferencing

France uses Tchap: a Matrix server, and this is to integrate a videoconf system, and it's based on LiveKit. So they do use available solutions.

W?

that's the french way to do things, always reinvent the wheel

Exactement!