SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS – but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn’t practice what it preaches. It’s not alone.
For this vulture, the single most amusing revelation from any of the industry speakers at this year’s Open Source Policy Summit was from SUSE’s Dominic Laurie, who moderated the final panel discussion of the day, “Sovereignty and Procurement.”
The panel ended a few minutes before the scheduled time, and he closed it with a surprising comment:
We’ll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings!
I have had calls with SUSE sales reps because I’m in the enterprise space, can confirm they use Google meet and Google workspace in general. Still not FOSS, but not Microsoft.
First, Teams works well on Linux. I have been a desktop Linux user since the 90’s and I use Teams every day (week days at least).
Second, that does not mean they use Teams as their preferred collaboration software.
Even on Windows, you use what the meeting organizer used to schedule the meeting. And if you interact with external companies, you are going to be joining Teams meetings regardless of your preferences.
And, if you had to make a reference you thought everybody would get, Teams or Zoom seem like your best bet.
So making reference to something someone one would say in Teams is not exactly Ronald McDonald admitting he eats at Wendy’s.
If Teams IS their preferred solution, I think the bigger deal may be a European company relying on a US cloud provider, even more than proprietary vs FOSS. At least, that is my view.
I would love a great Open Source video conferencing option to emerge and become popular though. As above, this kind of software has network effects and I would rather get invited to Open Source meetings if possible.
We’ll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings!
I don’t think this is enough evidence to show they use Teams. At work we say “zoom calls” and use Google Meet. It could very well be someone’s catch-all term for video call meetings in general
It’s less about using something proprietary as much as using something so excrementally terrible as Teams.
Other products have incremental upgrades
Teams gets excremental “upgrades”
Smells like a nothing burger. The Moderator most certainly has to use MS Teams for communicating with those that do not use FOSS; or he picked it up from other colleagues.
He’s the Senior Director of Corporate Communications. “Teams” is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests more than that he occasionally uses it reluctantly when someone insists on it.
Red Hat and Canonical also get mentioned. Consider my inclination to stick with Debian once again reinforced.
“Teams” is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests […]
People who haven’t touched Google with a ten-foot pole for years still “google” stuff in general conversation because that’s what people generally understand. People who never used Twitter (or that modern renamed far-right bot paradise) talk about stuff that got “tweeted”.
So no… associating colloquial use of terms with actual habits doesn’t work well.
Debian is the slow and steady turtle of distros.
Also, most fancy innovations get ported upstream anyway… Eventually
That quote doesn’t mean they always use Teams, they may have clients that only use teams and so are forced to comply to client.
I would hope internally they have a Jitsi server
Or BigBlueButton
I don’t think it necessarily means anything. Teams is very well-known.
It’s also the worst of the absolute worst and I will never understand why anyone would WANT to use it
I use it because I don’t have a choice. Want to work with government? Government uses teams, so fuxk your choices…
But given the choice? I’d rather roll around in olive oil to then jump into a lion’s den than use teams
Its really not that bad.
This. It’s inferior to slack by every metric except outlook/exchange integration, but it’s perfectly usable and apparently much cheaper.
Somewhat related - who came up with the idea of stuffing all that domain verification tokens directly into TXT records for the domain?
Just querying the TXT record of a domain might give you an idea what products a company is using…
