[koolba]

> The whole Open Source community? Volunteer driven, donation funded projects? Non-Profit charities, mostly composed out of volunteers?

None of those are businesses. Maybe I should have clarified but I meant a business as one where employees work for an organization that derives value from their work (say $A), the organization pays the employees some form of compensation ($B), and the expectation is that the value derived by each employee is more than the compensation (i.e $A > $B).

In that model I don't see many places where ($A - $B) < $7.

[justJanne]

Yes, they aren't for-profit entities.

But they still require history, easy to use chat systems, easy integration into Dev systems, etc.

That's what was better about IRC: you can self-host and get all of slacks features for very cheap.

[tempestn]

And you still can, right? There are still plenty of alternatives for those who can't or don't want to pay for Slack.

[kuschku]

It gets a lot harder when all the integrations only support webhooks or even only Slack.