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		koolba on May 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls That's been the present for the majority of most people's lives. Even with email there wasn't much, if any, time where the majority of people ran their own servers.

bogomipz on May 16, 2017 [–]

Email wasn't a proprietary protocol though. Xmpp wasn't a proprietary either and that 'present' wasn't that long ago.

koolba on May 16, 2017 | [–]

That's why I mentioned running your own server.

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