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   Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 14:49:38 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

   This is very cool to see this from #GNURadio... a case study of a sensible (principled - for all the right reasons) community move from Slack to Matrix: https://www.gnuradio.org/news/2020-04-27-moving-to-the-matrix/ And it happened 4 years ago...

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 14:49:37 JST 翠星石

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     @lightweight They could have moved to irc or xmpp, but of course it was matrix - although that's still much better than slack.
     
     Now if only they would stop using github...
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 14:59:06 JST 翠星石

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     @lightweight Actually reading the article, it's a disaster - they call slack "free software" and make it clear they only have concerns about trivial technical issues like chat history and having to pay; "All things equal, we would certainly prefer an open source solution to a proprietary one."
     
     They write "Slack is not open source" and "As an open source project, that should at least give us a pause to think if that’s really what we want." - refusing to even admit that what they were doing previously was totally unacceptable and was an affront to what a GNU package should be
     
     It doesn't seem like they'll be ever leaving github unless github makes them leave.