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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by mepian on Friday June 22, 2018 @02:59PM (#17376450)
I don't expect anything good to come out of this for the current IRC users. Hopefully they aren't going to play the embrace-extend-extinguish game in the long run to steal the name for their own proprietary protocol.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by confounded on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:11PM (#17376964)
Why do you think this?

London Trust Media have pretty public and open positions on Net Neutrality, user privacy, and open source software.

They are a major donor to various open source projects, and are the primary sponsor of the FSF's LibrePlanet conference (to name one that I happen to be aware of).

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by wencha on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:00PM (#17376467)
Remove “proprietary” and that’s what IRCv3 did.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by strkek on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:23PM (#17378364)
It's like the devs of Clang and GCC suddenly joined to define what "C20" means but bypassing ANSI and ISO processes.
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