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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by conanbatt on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:05AM (#11303638)
If you opened your chat, you would be losing the capacity to own the people in your chat and thus never get fidelization (or monetization).

Think of a bar that lets you bring drinks from other bars. It doesnt have good prospects.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by scrollaway on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:51AM (#11304296)
Imagine that. All the money TBL could have made had he kept the web closed.
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