Hi,
I would like to suggest the Discourse business model (discourse is the forum software used here on community.teamspeak.com).
I think Teamspeak should open-source and allow contributors to code and support the project with review from Teamspeak themselves. Remove the license model entirely, let anyone self-host with ZERO support outside the community forums. Charge for hosted servers that Teamspeak themselves host and have like a 20/mo plan for people who want proper support with their self-hosted servers.
This will allow the program to grow, mobile apps to be made, and more. This is the way some of the largest open source projects in the world do this (like discourse).
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It is kinda funny you post that just after their licence system rework.
From what I understand of the signals TeamSpeak team emits on the subject, I don’t expect them to open.
There’s a chance they are scared of having a fork of the project slip from their hands if the project gets really big, and of having the community start to question the fact that teamspeak staff is in the best position to be the maintainers. Which is totally understandable from my point of view.
Not to mention that having their whole business model rely on support would make them really weak in general, and especially towards AI, as simply feeding AI the public github would already provide of really big amount of support.
But yeah, I personally use TeamSpeak to feel in a safer place when gaming with my friends. In this setup, I would 100% vouch for an open source TeamSpeak, as it would actually guarantee users they get what they came from (privacy and freedom to handle their own ressources) “forever”. On top of having the project mature way way faster than it actually does.
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