Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• motogo@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Do you know what happens to trademarks and patents when a country starts threatening its (previous) allies with military invasion and tradewars, and start undermining the values of those allies? You’re right! It goes into the square hole! Heck, maybe I’m going to start a new software company tomorrow called Microsoft, and then threaten left and right with all crazy shit if anybody complains. Nobody will care about US trademarks since US disqualified itself by now.

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• bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Trademarks don’t matter when it’s only for internal use.

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• AGD4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  By Microsoft, no less.

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  • ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m 100% in favor of this. Erode that trademark!

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• Ross_audio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Probably not an enforceable trademark in France.

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  • doublenom@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is, and I genuinely worry that Microsoft will bitch about it.

    www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/FR50000009872…

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    • Ross_audio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s literally a generic word for video call.

      They might have registered it but in the EU it’s not enforceable in the context of video calls.

      If Microsoft tries to defend it in that context they could lose it in all contexts.

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    • bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It is, and I genuinely worry that Microsoft will bitch about it.

      The software is called Meet. Visio is just the name of the name of the government platform Meet is running on which is internal use only.

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