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Do you plan on open sourcing plugs or any parts of your system?

• rekoros 11y ago
  You can see what happens to OS projects that work with WhatsApp, Skype, and some of the other heavily guarded walled gardens -- cease & desist orders, carried out by GitHub. We have absolutely no interest in joining that list, which unfortunately means the answer - for the time being - is no :(
  • cyphar 11y ago
    Right, but surely if you're selling it that's much more incentive for a cease and a desist (regardless of whether it is free software).
    • rekoros 11y ago
      Actually I don't think so. The main thing the owners of big networks are afraid of is spam. We provide a ridiculously expensive way to connect, say, Slack to Skype, which is ==great for Skype==, from almost every possible angle. It means Skype users can stay on Skype instead of switching to someone else's Slack team.
      • taurath 11y ago
        In that case great for skype, bad for slack. Someone, somewhere will decide they'd rather force those customers to use their service/client, or else they'd have an open protocol in the first place.
        • rekoros 11y ago
          There's a huge compliance problem with working in someone else's Slack team -- you own none of the resulting data and you don't control access on your end. Email is much better in this way, since everyone gets a copy. With Sameroom you essentially retain the carbon copy semantics of email, but with real-time collaboration. So, I'd argue that it's great for Slack.
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