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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by type0 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:59PM (#21818770)
> more like a feature-limited demo.

demoware

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by syvanen on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:11PM (#21818887)
Shareware is making a comeback?
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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by type0 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:59PM (#21819891)
It's worse than that, expectation are different and actually doing disservice to the whole open source ethos. I recently heard a couple of regular users talking and equating Free Software//Open Source with Freeware, I didn't bother correcting them because from their perspective the difference is meaningless. Only us geeks care enough, but not enough to go and fork it.
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