Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by prawnsalad on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:06PM
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His long term plan as his post mentions, is to grow and push IRC so that we can support large communities on IRC instead of them migrating to closed platforms. It's not normal for a businessman to spend so much money on this type of plan, I perfectly agree. But I've seen it happen, along with other IRC and open source projects that have nothing to do with LTM. See here for all the open source projects that a VPN supports without anything coming from it. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/companies-we-spo...
As for running a large IRC network, it's not just about the cost. It's the management, the running of the network, dealing with its users, etc. Protecting yourself from DDOS that still unfortunately happens amongst other attacks. It's not as simple as throwing it on "AWS/GCP for hobby scale money". (I say say that even though I don't run freenode).
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by rasengan on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:03PM
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> it's not normal for a self-described businessman to give out money for free
If that’s not normal then I don’t want to ever be normal.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by pferde on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:13AM
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You're confusing business with charity. Business should never give out money for free, it wouldn't make sense.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by rasengan on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:47AM
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Not all people work for money, sir.
I don’t.
Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival
by noeatnosleep on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:55PM
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I love this statement.
it's not normal for a self-described businessman to give out money for free: so what's his long term plan behind all of this?
> For the IRC networks such as freenode, they are a vital network for open source developers and communities which I think we can all agree would be very upsetting if that was to be interrupted.
this statement is so disingenuous it sounds like the product of a PR department
running a large IRC network in 2018 can be done on AWS/GCP for hobby scale money, so it's not as if freenode risks disappearing without his patronage... however your/christel's income would, hence my (and others) concerns about the purchase of influence
(personally: if my "employer" hired Karpeles as their CTO I'd be out of there so fast it'd make your head spin)