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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by jarek on Sunday November 01, 2015 @01:46PM (#10487553)
I, for one, think that reinventing the wheel is a totally great idea and that we should have more npms and less apts
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by tptacek on Sunday November 01, 2015 @02:42PM (#10487811)
The ICB people thought the same thing about IRC.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by jarek on Sunday November 01, 2015 @03:51PM (#10488204)
The HTTP people thought the same thing about AOL.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by tptacek on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:11PM (#10488326)
No, they didn't.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by pvg on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:49PM (#10488491)
This is more truthy than actually true.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by KirinDave on Sunday November 01, 2015 @02:26PM (#10487737)
I, for one, think that the march of technological experimentation and progress should stop unless we can convince specifically jarek of the value of any given project, as jarek has demonstrated that they want to become the arbiters of all value judgments.
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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by jarek on Sunday November 01, 2015 @02:36PM (#10487781)
Yes. My first verdict: outlawing files and having VC land come up with a replacement product with better UX. Then HTTP.
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