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It's mildly satisfying to play the world's tiniest open-source violin[1] again, but nothing will change, HN outrage notwithstanding. Unaffected orgs will just
by craigsmansion 8y ago
It's mildly satisfying to play the world's tiniest open-source violin[1] again, but nothing will change, HN outrage notwithstanding.
Unaffected orgs will just keep on using slack, as will many affected orgs, and Free alternatives and irc will be mocked and laughed at by next week for being inconvenient and old in comparison to yet another proprietary solution, or even slack itself.
If you rely on communication, and you don't control your communication, you can't rely on that communication.
There'll be a reminder in 2025.
1. https://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/743/ (and it really should be a Free Software violin now. If you ever wondered about the difference outside of licenses: this is it.)