[jms703]

> not willing to pay to another company for a product that's actually their competition.

This. Companies are cutting costs. Teams may not be the best to use, but it doesn't make sense to have multiple chat solutions.

[epolanski]

Hmm, GitHub has a gran total 2100 employees.

Even if they were paying 10$ per user, it's basically the salary of one non-lower level engineer to have cross-company communication they are already used to.

[CyanLite2]

It's the premise of paying your competitors money to do something that you already are doing. Someone manager probably got a bonus out of this move.

And corporate espionage is more prevalent than you may think. Can you absolutely guarantee 100% that the competitor, like Zoom in China, isn't sniffing their video traffic or recordings to some of their most sensitive internal business discussions?