[st3v3r]

They said business. Of course things are going to be different for organizations that either have no revenue, or depend on donations.

[kuschku]

But when a lot of tools and integrations only work with Slack, then open source projects often don’t have the time to reimplement them just for their own projects.

The network effect leads to lots of open source projects having to choose slack – which, in turn, means they end up having to pay, without having revenue.