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Re:Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor by stjohnswarts on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:08PM (#20947516)
requiring a single commercial entity like github is a really bad idea. Sure it'll be fine for a few years but when github goes belly up or gets bought and the new CEO cuts all extraneous projects, then you're hosed.
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Re:Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor by soperj on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:42PM (#20947722)
You realize they're owned by Microsoft yes?
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Re:Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor by cocoa19 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:23AM (#20947955)
That's counting on Microsoft taking good care of GitHub and maintaining its goodwill.

It might or might not be well managed in the years to come. Case in point, Skype. It was "the" tool to use for office communication. Hardly anyone I know uses Skype nowadays.

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Re:Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor by alexhutcheson on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:20PM (#20957088)
Skype is still pretty big in the enterprise chat space.
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Re:Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor by gregknicholson on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:07AM (#20962790)
Sadly yes, because big businesses with insufficient concern for maintaining openness on the internet keep choosing siloed proprietary communication services, just because they're "more polished".

cough Mozilla cough Slack cough

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