From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Rich  wrote at 16:45 this Friday (GMT):   
   > candycanearter07  wrote:   
   >> Scott Dorsey  wrote at 00:37 this Friday (GMT):   
   >>> In article <10lgq92$1mhui$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >>> Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=   wrote:   
   >>>>France is deploying a homegrown, open-source alternative to Teams   
   >>>>and Zoom, as another small step in the ongoing Europe-wide move   
   >>>>towards getting rid of dependence on US-based services   
   >>>   
   >>> It's a shame that we don't have some process to establish open   
   >>> source protocols for use on the internet for these sorts of   
   >>> things...  you know, like the RFCs.....  nobody uses THOSE anymore.   
   >>> --scott   
   >>   
   >> People forgot what "interoperability" meant.   
   >   
   > "People" didn't forget -- most "people" still very much want   
   > interoperability and for their comms to "just work".   
   >   
   > For-profit corporations abandoned interoperability because there was   
   > more profit to be obtained from walled gardens than from   
   > interoperability.   
      
      
   Arguably, people forgot BECAUSE of for-profit companies, I have met so   
   many people who assume Google Docs or MSOffice is the default and get   
   all surprised when I talk about using LibreOffice.   
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