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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by andrepd on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:37PM (#20598081)
Why would you force people to use nonfree proprietary software in order to contribute to an open project?
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by StavrosK on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:22AM (#20599640)
That's a good point. I find Zulip better than Slack/Discord for discourse (even better than mailing lists, with some caveats, and it's Apache-licensed:

https://zulipchat.com/

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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by outime on Saturday August 03, 2019 @07:28AM (#20599857)
I knew about Zulip but wasn’t aware of the free hosted plan. I can truly see it now as an alternative for orgs who can’t afford running these things themselves.
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by StavrosK on Saturday August 03, 2019 @07:31AM (#20599871)
I use the free hosted plan and intend to pay for it when I need more features. It's excellent.
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by nerdponx on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:51AM (#20600161)
IRC?
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by hollander on Saturday August 03, 2019 @05:31AM (#20599485)
Free as in "Google"?
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by zajio1am on Saturday August 03, 2019 @05:55AM (#20599554)
With mailing lists, users can use any mail client regardless of server side.
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by andrepd on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:44AM (#20600144)
?
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by nervousvarun on Saturday August 03, 2019 @09:07AM (#20600203)
Guessing the implication being that Google is ultimately not "free" w/ respect to your personal data and how it is used.
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by andrepd on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:57AM (#20604661)
Yes but how does Google enter into this?
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by feanaro on Sunday August 04, 2019 @02:28PM (#20608336)
It doesn't directly, only as a meme, or archetype. The same way that beer is not directly related to the concept of gratis, but you still use it in the illustrative phrase "free as in beer".
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by monadgonad on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:10AM (#20684202)
The mailing list is provided by Google Groups
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Re:Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully pro... by chronogram on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:53PM (#20598569)
Help! Help! I’m being forced to use non free proprietary software!

Can just have both.

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