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SUSE exec blurts that the company uses Teams (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

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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!

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 73 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

For corperate distros (so anything you need to work and not just want to work, ) SUSE is the last torchbearer of full FOSS.

But honestly thank the community for Debian, Arch, and Guix for keeping the community stuff awesome for the rest of us

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“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.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Debian is the slow and steady turtle of distros.

Also, most fancy innovations get ported upstream anyway... Eventually