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I don't mean to criticize the blog post, since it's probably valuable to some people. But if you're sick of Skype for Linux and you realize that something like

I don't mean to criticize the blog post, since it's probably valuable to some people. But if you're sick of Skype for Linux and you realize that something like IRC would be good replacement, then what's the point of writing an IRC server in Haskell (except for fun/education/pleasure) when you could use existing software (open source or not) like Apache Wave, Mumble, one of the many XMPP servers, IRC servers etc.?

Ao7bei3s 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here syndrome?
wonderzombie 14y ago
fun/education/pleasure Isn't this enough? You learn something and you'll probably get something useful out of it in the end, as well.
coldtea 14y ago
>But if you're sick of Skype for Linux and you realize that something like IRC would be good replacement Huh? How do those even compare?
- Zash 14y ago
  I know at least one organization that mainly used the group chat bit of Skype. In that case, one might think it possible to replace it with XMPP or IRC.
- saraid216 14y ago
  Read the first paragraph of the OP.
Guthur 14y ago
So as to have a pure wheel...