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  • Is it better for them to build an open source app and host their meetings on Zoom, a platform familiar to the audience they’re hoping to bring, or for them to just not, and for local cooperative banks to all build their own in-house proprietary banking apps with no open source option existing?

    I’d really like it if we stopped letting perfect be the enemy of good. My credit union uses an app that’s just a webview wrapper for their website. I haven’t taken a look at the project but a native app built as an open source community project would be fucking awesome, regardless of whether they host video meetings with zoom or jitsi.

    They want their project to succeed. A free software project that dies doesn’t actually provide anyone with freedoms; hosting with the more well known and familiar video hosting software when they have no existing audience is the right choice.



  • There kind of is though. I’m not here to argue it’s enough to unseat windows but it is markedly different

    From a technical standpoint it’s just another linux distro with some nice tweaks for gaming but from a human perspective it has brand recognition, familiarity, a known company behind it. Those things do really matter for adoption. No idea if that’d be anywhere near enough, I’m not inclined to make predictions, but it does have explicit advantages over consumers hearing they can get a laptop with Ubuntu or fedora on it