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France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials (numerique.gouv.fr)
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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Who tells them that "Visio" is already a trademark?

[–] motogo@feddit.dk 9 points 22 hours 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.

[–] bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] AGD4@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By Microsoft, no less.

[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably not an enforceable trademark in France.

[–] doublenom@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/FR500000098727661

[–] bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes 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.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours 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.