[echelon]

The company writing the article this HN thread is about wants this. Lots of companies do.

Today there is no option because Slack is scared to death of losing their leverage.

Companies want full rights to their data, and Slack is lording over it like a dragon protecting treasure.

[bandrami]

And a whole lot of companies will dump Slack if their data policies loosen (they specifically don't want their people feeding proprietary info to an LLM through any channel)