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That is when the BETA builds started, you effectively pre-ordered it if you bought a license at that point in time.

Bad move on Slack, accept your competition and work to stay ahead of the game that you no longer have a monopoly on.

This has been a major issue for me from the get go, it goes against open source culture but that's no surprise because that is what Facebook loves to do (which it has consistently proved).

They pick something upcoming, recreate it injecting their ideals while knocking the original. They then release it to a sea of "pseudo developers" that latch onto it with the "well it's good because Facebook" mentality which aggressively defend it giving them more leverage.

Then they rinse and repeat until they have replaced everything the community has created with their equivalent instead of contributing back to those projects like a true supporter of open source would.

Open source is much more than having code on a repo, it's a culture that Facebook is hell bent on "changing".

They absolutely do, it's all a big game to see who can get the biggest market share.

"Facebook also needs to take into account their influence over the ecosystem. The reality is that whatever project Facebook puts out is immediately seen as gospel and "naturally, a well-engineered thing and a good choice to use!" - this is literally a daily argument in #Node.js when somebody is trying to argue why a poorly-fitting tool is somehow appropriate for their usecase. "Well, Facebook uses it!""

Absolutely agree with this statement, it drives me insane listening to the hype before anyone has really even had chance to form an opinion on it.

See this is how to open source something, I hope your taking notes Facebook.