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  "path": "/story/26/02/05/1930255/the-european-commission-is-testing-an-open-source-alternative-to-microsoft-teams?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed",
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  "textContent": "The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams. Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven too inflexible for an organization the Commission's size, it said. The Matrix-based solution could also eventually connect the Commission to other EU bodies like the Parliament.\n\n \n\nRead more of this story at Slashdot.",
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