Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 06:32:22 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: Microsoft Teams for Linux Message-ID: <20200509063222.94d762e9751a32c693d73d2f@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200508185327.00007397@seibercom.net> References: <b64d57e2-f4d7-7618-c711-6501a652a6ac@suszko.eu> <20200505093624.00001df2@seibercom.net> <223da1b3-a83d-b2e8-36dc-468dcb219305@suszko.eu> <db68d8c4-cf3e-5a2f-63d9-f16f0b4f9559@lidstrom.eu> <fecdd83b-2061-a6c0-f927-c380cbc2b500@suszko.eu> <a0828175-6f75-92c4-ab48-bfd395e1a91d@suszko.eu> <ce6fe689-777f-7285-3483-76fb73ea3e82@suszko.eu> <f3a86f00-7e81-ec9d-2f29-c4d9bc3e0094@lidstrom.eu> <b28e6141-04bc-4f66-93e3-658929500c0c@suszko.eu> <CAM8r67Boe0dQt%2B1T8rdoubxNKaeDCaQ5UkY1nThM8UahF=WU3g@mail.gmail.com> <20200508113438.00006adc@seibercom.net> <CAM8r67DqhC37qoU99iBXPvSZAVVPezPCfKipOD-2xiig95-0TA@mail.gmail.com> <20200508185327.00007397@seibercom.net>
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On Fri, 8 May 2020 18:53:27 -0400 Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > Both "Zoom" and "MS Teams" are working fine in my Win10 machine. I have > never tried to get them to work on FreeBSD, and I have no idea why I > would want to. I don't have a linux machine handy, although that is on > my "to-do" list. Perhaps by the end of this summer. One good reason for wanting them working on Linux or FreeBSD is not owning a Windows machine. I don't, so if I wished to use either of those tools it seems I would need to buy one or try and get it to work on something else. Standards compliance is usually a good way to make applications that work well on all platforms but it does seem that some vendors prefer to break that in order to work around deficiencies in their major market platforms. This is of course a valid (if irritating) commercial decision with strong short term benefits (the application works great on the major platforms). The downside being that there is no pressure to adhere to standards so it won't work well on anything else and neither can anyone get anything else to work as well on the major platforms. This is of course not a downside for the application vendor - one reason why OS vendors should not be allowed to sell applications IMHO, but that boat sailed decades ago. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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