Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
by paxys on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:10PM
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How is Zulip as a company different from Slack?
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Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
by tabbott on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:45AM
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Zulip as a company is extremely different a massively-VC-funded-and-then-go-public company like Slack:
* 100% of the software we write is FOSS.
* We intentionally haven't taken VC funding despite plenty of opportunity to do so, to ensure we can remain an independent, values-focused company.
* Most features are built by our open source community, not fulltime employees.
* Zulip was a distributed company pre-pandemic (while we did have a SF coworking space walking distance from my home, I as the founder only went in about once every week or two, and essentially all collaboration was over Zulip or GitHub).
Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
by sprashanth on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:52PM
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Isn't Zulip acquired by Dropbox?
Dropbox hasn't been involved with Zulip since 2016. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23864140
They acquired the original Zulip startup in 2014. Then they open-sourced the code, and Zulip since 2016 is backed by a new company which is the one tabbott is describing above.