In other marauding barbarian US tech company news, Slack hits up a non-profit coding club for high schoolers:
"Slack reached out to us and said that if we don’t agree to pay an extra $50k this week and $200k a year, they’ll deactivate our Slack workspace and delete all of our message history"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/slack_nonprofit_license_hike_threat/
But the kids will be alright - they switched to Mattermost.
#bigtech #floss #selfhosting
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