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I definitely want an open service to succeed. I think one big problem is with the major players, non-techies know they just work (more or less) and people will
by JustSomeNobody 10y ago
I definitely want an open service to succeed. I think one big problem is with the major players, non-techies know they just work (more or less) and people will use them so there's not much hassle. Even among techies, there's chat fatigue now.
That being said, I have this nagging idea in my head that the more chat apps that get thrown at people, the easier it may be for an open service to prevail.
- brightball 10y agoI'd tend to agree with you. With a diffusion of options you're essentially going to see the natural rise of 2 corporate competitors and 1 alternative option that many people support out of principle. It's a mind share pattern that seems to exist in many places: Hipchat, Slack, Matrix Windows, OSX, Ubuntu Linux Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians .NET, Java, Open Source Dynamic options -> Ruby/Python/Javascript/PHP/Elixir/Perl
- Arathorn 10y agoIt's worth noting that sometimes the alternative option wins... e.g. once upon a time on the web, the 2 corporate competitors were Microsoft IIS and Netscape Enterprise Server... and 'underdog' Apache :)