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I’d rather see irc dead than turned into something else
by wencha 8y ago
I’d rather see irc dead than turned into something else
- Twirrim 8y agoHow could any of this kill IRC? It's an open standard.
- matthberg 8y agoEmbrace Extend Extinguish, the root of Electronic Evils. Hopefully it doesn't happen with IRC as it has with other lovely parts of electronic history. Microsoft was the origin of the term with their browser and OS products of old, yet it has been unfortunately more and more relevant with Google, particularly email and android openness (gmail only features and Google play services, respectively).
- spookthesunset 8y agoThat didn't really answer the question that was asked. IRC is an open protocol. Whats your fear? There are some seriously paranoid people on HN these days, and it is rather disenchanting to have to sift through all the negativity. Failure to embrace new things and new ways of doing things is a surefire way to irrelevancy.
- kuschku 8y agoLondon Trust Media owns the networks where almost all users are, and either funds and closely works with most client developers, or directly employees those. That’s the fear. The IRC protocol isn’t great, nor worthy of protection. The users, the community are. If tomorrow freenode and snoonet went down, IRC would be forever changed.
- orf 8y agoIt's being extingushed right now because nobody is extending or embracing it.
- jlgaddis 8y agoRSS is an open standard too, but Google effectively killed it.
- Twirrim 8y agoThey really didn't. Most websites that publish articles in any form still have RSS feeds, and there are plenty of feed readers out there that work.
- rasengan 8y ago“This is the kind of divisiveness that has paralyzed our country.” - Richard Stallman [1] [1] http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/109 http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/109