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Did they take VC money?

I think that the photos they have on their front page should be enough to tell you who is their target market.

I've invented this heuristic: if the page that describes the project uses the word "solutions", then they'll attempt to use "open source" to obtain free labour, but will distribute the revenues only amongst those people who actually have control.

Black businesswomen? Firefighters? White servicemen? White software developers?

I really don't get what you're implying. I don't see any problem with the photos on the mattermost front page.

https://mattermost.com/

Everything you mentioned in that list in people who can pay. As opposed to people who code and they use what they code, and furthermore share it with other people who also code and use what they code.

It's "open source" so that they save on developer costs, not for ideological reasons, and you can tell from the photos on their front page - that's what I was implying.

I think this is kind of cynical. I often adopt open source tools because I want to avoid vendor lockin. And so do many. It's not like I say, "Wow. Another code base to dive into and spend hours trying to understand." Nope. I just want the assurance that I can do it if I ever need to do so.

I don't think the GP implied anything about race? The photos I see are war frigates, power plants, some sort of military operations center, and commercial airliners.

Think "enterprise", rather than "racism".

Exactly. But some people think everyone else is racist. Those people's skin colour didn't even register.

I left every option open for OP to explain. I personally couldn't care less what skin colour are in any of the photos. Not a single one of them match my own.

Governmental organizations and corporate firms is the vibe (or maybe that was obvious and you're just trolling).

I think the point was that open source hasn't often been supported by companies serving these kinds of markets and the interests of the broader community are often sidelined.

Yes. They are a YC company, too: https://mattermost.com/blog/yc-leads-50m-series-b-in-matterm...

Waiting for the thread to be marked as [flagged] and then [dead] then, I assume.

Has HN ever showed bias in this way? I can't think of any occasions.

Isn’t that obvious? Look at the domain name.

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