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Is it going to remain free? Would consider moving our internal irc server here but am concerned that in a few months it will become pay only?

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No, it won't remain free forever. Soon we'll having pricing plans that are comparable to existing team chat products.

How unfortunate.

I've been working on an open source version of what you're purporting to provide as a service.

Open source software != free service -- in fact, even when the software is open source, you usually have to pay for a hosted, managed service.

I can make an automatic heroku application. I even have a guy who works at Heroku that would help me do it.

I could charge instance-hours for a prefabbed EC2 instance image too.

Do it.

Have a link for us?

"We are offering a free trial on all organizations during our beta testing period...... If you sign up for an organization we may contact you to gather feedback - both to improve Grove and help us determine our pricing."

I'd say that means it'll likely be a paid for service. Maybe with a small free option.

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