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@gabmus@fosstodon.org I don't like electron, but that's a sensible choice.There are a bunch of issues with Electron that can technically render software nonfree. For example Electron ships with a Chromium binary as a blob, and because Chromium has a permissive non-copyleft license, this is allowed. AFAIK Electron does not provide a way to build this binary from source.
The existence of the proprietary server suite does not decrement the value of the FOSS solution.Depends on how you look at it. I often hear things like "Synapse sucks" and and "Conduit is still unfinished". If Element spent their time improving the existing server solutions instead of working on their own proprietary probably all of us would've benefited instead of just Element alone as a greedy company.
Can you give some examples of the features included in the proprietary server suite? I'd like to know if any of these makes sense outside of a corporate context.This does not matter. Just because software includes features that might not look useful to you, or the average home user, does not justify it being proprietary. Users who work inside of a corporate context deserve software freedom too!