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they disabled their paid tier when they were acquired by github: https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-github~1d3eb8ee-4c99-46c0-8daf-ca35a

they disabled their paid tier when they were acquired by github: https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-github~1d3eb8ee-4c99-46c0-8daf-ca35a96be6ce https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-g...

0x0 8y ago
So Spectrum is now owned by Microsoft? How long until they are assimilated into Skype for Business or MS Teams (which is a poor carbon copy of Slack in my experience)?
- godzillabrennus 8y ago
  If it’s anything like Sunrise they’ll just destroy the product and never assimilate it’s festures.
  - yebyen 8y ago
    FWIW, Microsoft has bought other companies that had (perhaps more) prominent open source products, and later marked them as EOL, with future-dated grace periods for companies to move off and migrate away, and they haven't all died (community takes over.) I say that as an admin of Team Hephy, the fork/continuation of the Deis Workflow Kubernetes PaaS, which is open source and from the team that invented Helm. They didn't actively destroy the product when MS bought out Deis, they did collectively decide and deem it "not strategically important" and subsequently allowed the community to decide what to do with it, helpfully adding MIT licenses to everything on the way out, so there would be no difficulty for us. There's a strong argument for that position ("not strategically valuable") even without imagining that "Corporate got involved," as some of us believed. Workflow is not positioned where the demand is, and I can tell you that is objectively true. (I can't tell you why, though. New users absolutely love Workflow!) Many of the Deis people now work at Microsoft, making more Open Source and working on Azure Cloud. We're still kicking it here at Team Hephy. I hadn't heard about Sunrise. But if Microsoft is aligning their company against Slack, it is not such a big stretch to imagine that building an OSS competitor to Slack actually fits right in with the strategic goals, even if they are also selling their own brand of chat, in Teams. (Has there been any news about GitHub's developer commitment to Atom? Many predicted that with the acquisition, Microsoft wouldn't commit resources to both Atom and VSCode, but as far as I know both projects continue to be developed.)
    - yebyen 8y ago
      We're killing it!
- ChuckMcM 8y ago
  That was my thought when I read the comment. I had not seen that they had been acquired by github and by the commutative property Microsoft. I'm guessing their biological distinctiveness will be assimilated into Teams at some point. :-)

0x0 8y ago

So Spectrum is now owned by Microsoft? How long until they are assimilated into Skype for Business or MS Teams (which is a poor carbon copy of Slack in my experience)?

godzillabrennus 8y ago
If it’s anything like Sunrise they’ll just destroy the product and never assimilate it’s festures.
- yebyen 8y ago
  FWIW, Microsoft has bought other companies that had (perhaps more) prominent open source products, and later marked them as EOL, with future-dated grace periods for companies to move off and migrate away, and they haven't all died (community takes over.) I say that as an admin of Team Hephy, the fork/continuation of the Deis Workflow Kubernetes PaaS, which is open source and from the team that invented Helm. They didn't actively destroy the product when MS bought out Deis, they did collectively decide and deem it "not strategically important" and subsequently allowed the community to decide what to do with it, helpfully adding MIT licenses to everything on the way out, so there would be no difficulty for us. There's a strong argument for that position ("not strategically valuable") even without imagining that "Corporate got involved," as some of us believed. Workflow is not positioned where the demand is, and I can tell you that is objectively true. (I can't tell you why, though. New users absolutely love Workflow!) Many of the Deis people now work at Microsoft, making more Open Source and working on Azure Cloud. We're still kicking it here at Team Hephy. I hadn't heard about Sunrise. But if Microsoft is aligning their company against Slack, it is not such a big stretch to imagine that building an OSS competitor to Slack actually fits right in with the strategic goals, even if they are also selling their own brand of chat, in Teams. (Has there been any news about GitHub's developer commitment to Atom? Many predicted that with the acquisition, Microsoft wouldn't commit resources to both Atom and VSCode, but as far as I know both projects continue to be developed.)
  - yebyen 8y ago
    We're killing it!
ChuckMcM 8y ago
That was my thought when I read the comment. I had not seen that they had been acquired by github and by the commutative property Microsoft. I'm guessing their biological distinctiveness will be assimilated into Teams at some point. :-)