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lmm on Feb 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

IRCCloud costs money these days, and it's no more open-source than Slack in any case.

davidw on Feb 1, 2016 [–]

There's a difference between an open protocol and an open client. The latter... doesn't matter quite so much. The former is pretty important.

lmm on Feb 2, 2016 | [–]

Slack supports connecting via IRC or XMPP.

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