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Slack is generally B2B paid service for collaboration, is it not? You would imagine instant messaging and social networking to be something where Skype.com fall

by dylz 8y ago

Slack is generally B2B paid service for collaboration, is it not? You would imagine instant messaging and social networking to be something where Skype.com falls under the umbrella, but Lync/Skype for Business does not. The PDF also constantly uses the word personal. > such as instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing, and blogging. In order to qualify for that authorization, such services and software had to be publicly available (widely available to the public) at no cost to the user

saghm 8y ago
I'm fairly certain that Slack is available for free usage; I think there's just a limit on the number of users you can have in your "organization" (where "organization" doesn't necessarily mean anything formal like a company) without needing to pay
- dylz 8y ago
  Yes, sure, you can make a free workspace just like you can run a trial of Lync, but presumably this categorization brings them out of personal messaging and into a B2B-relationship for business purposes, and the majority of their business is funded by paid B2B contracts. NB: I'm not saying this is fair to anyone and it's just my personal interpretation, but it reads to me that the OFAC PDF linked is overly intent on specifically personal messaging, for personal individuals, not for business collaboration, B2B contracts, anything related to work or commercialness
  - pilsetnieks 8y ago
    But Slack isn't strictly for businesses. It's "teams" in "workspaces" which could mean whatever. Especially in the case of free accounts there's a fair possibility that those could just be some people.
    - yellowapple 8y ago
      Indeed; I know of (and have joined) multiple Slack "organizations" that are just individuals chatting about things. Didn't cost me anything.
- extra88 8y ago
  Slack's free tier doesn't limit number of team members, I'm in one with thousands. Slack's free tier limits the number of messages you can access to the most recent 10,000. There are also limits on the amount of storage, number of integrations with other services, and video calls can't be multi-party, only 1-to-1. https://slack.com/plans https://slack.com/plans
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by dylz 8y ago

saghm 8y ago

I'm fairly certain that Slack is available for free usage; I think there's just a limit on the number of users you can have in your "organization" (where "organization" doesn't necessarily mean anything formal like a company) without needing to pay

dylz 8y ago
Yes, sure, you can make a free workspace just like you can run a trial of Lync, but presumably this categorization brings them out of personal messaging and into a B2B-relationship for business purposes, and the majority of their business is funded by paid B2B contracts. NB: I'm not saying this is fair to anyone and it's just my personal interpretation, but it reads to me that the OFAC PDF linked is overly intent on specifically personal messaging, for personal individuals, not for business collaboration, B2B contracts, anything related to work or commercialness
- pilsetnieks 8y ago
  But Slack isn't strictly for businesses. It's "teams" in "workspaces" which could mean whatever. Especially in the case of free accounts there's a fair possibility that those could just be some people.
  - yellowapple 8y ago
    Indeed; I know of (and have joined) multiple Slack "organizations" that are just individuals chatting about things. Didn't cost me anything.
extra88 8y ago
Slack's free tier doesn't limit number of team members, I'm in one with thousands. Slack's free tier limits the number of messages you can access to the most recent 10,000. There are also limits on the amount of storage, number of integrations with other services, and video calls can't be multi-party, only 1-to-1. https://slack.com/plans https://slack.com/plans

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