#Zoom: What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my mine too.
Zoom is a proprietary service. You can't download the Zoom software, set up your own Zoom server and host a Zoom conference. Their software is theirs. Yet they use dozens of software packages developed by the Free Software community to run their service:
https://explore.zoom.us/en/opensource/source/
They value Open Source, because it saves them money, but not the software freedoms of their users.
#SoftwareFreedom #ProprietaryServices #OpenSource
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