Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!

https://lemmy.world/post/35502519

Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source! - Lemmy.World

Hi! DHH (co-founder of Basecamp) announced [https://x.com/dhh/status/1963675999012552970] yesterday that they’re making their group chat software open source and free for everyone to use. This is fantastic news, especially considering this piece of software previously required a $299 payment just to access the codebase (far too expensive, in my opinion). It looks like we now have another excellent open source alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams [https://openalternative.co/campfire], thanks to this move. I really hope more companies will follow this trend soon. What are your thoughts?

This isn’t nearly enough to change my opinion of DHH, an out-and-proud piece of shit.

Please tell me more about this. I don’t know enough to know what to dislike him about.

I only saw him recently talking about his Omarchy thing. Seemed too opinionated.

I also wasn’t aware so had a search.

If you don’t mind Reddit, this thread is interesting… reddit.com/…/can_someone_explain_what_happened_wi…

Or there’s this… theverge.com/…/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employe…

That’s a more recent flare up but DHH has been “ruffling feathers” for a while to put it politely. tomstu.art/the-dhh-problem
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