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Hi!

DHH (co-founder of Basecamp) announced yesterday that they're making their group chat software open source and free for everyone to use. This is fantastic news, especially considering this piece of software previously required a $299 payment just to access the codebase (far too expensive, in my opinion).

It looks like we now have another excellent open source alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams, thanks to this move. I really hope more companies will follow this trend soon.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This isn't nearly enough to change my opinion of DHH, an out-and-proud piece of shit.

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Please tell me more about this. I don’t know enough to know what to dislike him about.

I only saw him recently talking about his Omarchy thing. Seemed too opinionated.

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That's a more recent flare up but DHH has been "ruffling feathers" for a while to put it politely. https://tomstu.art/the-dhh-problem