On 1/30/25 23:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:02:25PM -0800, D MacDougall wrote:
4. If you want or need to join Zoom meetings that you do not control you
[...]
Or convince your partners to move to Jitsi. Or BBB. Sometimes that
effort works out, and this is *definitely worth it*.
After all we are on a mailing list discussing, and powered by, free
software. We know why.
Cheers
I wholeheatedly agree in principle and in circumstances where one has
some amount of influence.
However, if your "partners" are a university which is using it to teach
hundreds or even thousands of classes at the same time and you are one
individual user, perhaps even a "newby" user at that, I'm not sure it
would be worth the time.
In fact it likely wouldn't even be possible. Zoom scales to 1000s of
users amazingly well while I have deep reservations about whether those
you mention would be ready to take Zooms place.(1) Zoom also has a
large staff and the resources to make sure the servers are always
available etc. And zoom provides all sorts of extensions such as
automated summaries, minutes taking, etc.
I think we may be at a place where the only way for free software to
become as usable as the proprietary would be the way Libreoffice has
done it. It will need to become almost interchangeable with the
proprietary. It'll probably take 20 years or more but I figure it may
happen.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_conferencing_software
Don MacDougall
