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by paulddraper 2315 days ago
Also not free, has banking ramifications, etc.
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sneak 2315 days ago
TFA mentions that Mattermost's source is AGPL and the binaries are MIT. It's absolutely free software.

It's also $0 software, in that it being free software and open source, you can simply and legally patch out their license checks and recompile, if you so wish.

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paulddraper 2315 days ago
I was referring to the VPS hosting, not the software.

Ease of hosting is one of the very biggest advantages to something like Slack or Discord.

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