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		sneak on Feb 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discord is not an acceptable choice for free softw... 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.

paulddraper on Feb 21, 2020 [–]

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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