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by lmm 3792 days ago
IRCCloud costs money these days, and it's no more open-source than Slack in any case.
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davidw 3792 days ago
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.
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lmm 3792 days ago
Slack supports connecting via IRC or XMPP.
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