Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by vvanders on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:50PM (#11300956)

Reminds me of the story around AIM/MSN wars from back in the day.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5635488/msn-messenger-vs-a...

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by pyre on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:56PM (#11301326)

Or how AOL's Oscar protocol got updated at one point to start requesting chunks of the AOL IM binary as authentication against open sources clients (because they couldn't distribute AOL's binary with their client).

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by khc on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:43AM (#11303210)

Do you have a source for this?

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