[rekoros]

You can see what happens to OS projects that work with WhatsApp, Skype, and some of the other heavily guarded walled gardens -- cease & desist orders, carried out by GitHub.

We have absolutely no interest in joining that list, which unfortunately means the answer - for the time being - is no :(

[cyphar]

Right, but surely if you're selling it that's much more incentive for a cease and a desist (regardless of whether it is free software).

[rekoros]

Actually I don't think so. The main thing the owners of big networks are afraid of is spam.

We provide a ridiculously expensive way to connect, say, Slack to Skype, which is ==great for Skype==, from almost every possible angle. It means Skype users can stay on Skype instead of switching to someone else's Slack team.

[taurath]

In that case great for skype, bad for slack. Someone, somewhere will decide they'd rather force those customers to use their service/client, or else they'd have an open protocol in the first place.

[rekoros]

There's a huge compliance problem with working in someone else's Slack team -- you own none of the resulting data and you don't control access on your end.

Email is much better in this way, since everyone gets a copy.

With Sameroom you essentially retain the carbon copy semantics of email, but with real-time collaboration. So, I'd argue that it's great for Slack.