Notices by Olie (otheb@mastodon.technology)

Proprietary software does WEIRD things to people:

Dev1: "Oh btw I paid for a Zoom account so I can setup a room for us to chat in"
Dev2: "We've just been using Discord for that"
Me: "If you don't have Discord and don't want to spend money then we could use any of the Jitsi meet instances, or set up our own if we wanted"
LeadDev: "If someone can let me know how these differ from Teams then I can see if there's value in the company paying"
Me: "Jitsi is *free* free, like no money, and it's OSS..."

@fribbledom @Chaos_99 @nin @ericbuijs This is the stuff that makes me love FOSS so much. People just going "hey that's a good idea" and then just starting work on it. No corporate funding crap needed - just interest and enthusiasm towards a common want.

@maiki I've been using protonmail for a while. No complaints. It's an email service that doesn't treat you like shit. You login and it shows you your emails, then you can send emails. What more could you want?