[Qgis-psc] Chat unification

[ElPaso]

Il 09/11/2015 11:38, Vincent Picavet (ml) ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> On 08/11/2015 11:29, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 09:35:21AM +0000, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
>>> Oh we can just host something like rocketchat which is open but not old
>>> school like IRC
>> Sorry but... what's does "old school" mean exactly ?
>> IRC is a _protocol_, an open standard, like HTTP or SMTP.
>> There can be how many clients (and servers) you want for IRC,
>> like web browsers for HTTP or mail agents and servers for SMTP.
>>
>> What are we talking about here ? Are you finding no "comfortable"
>> IRC client for your operating systems ? Or is it a problem at
>> the protocol level ?
>>
>> I've tried using gitter via my IRC client, but it failed big time,
>> loosing messages without notifying me about it and using my login
>> credentials to send unsolicited notifications. Why would you want
>> to use a software which is both proprietary and bogus ?
> Thank you Sandro for this.
>
> Making an Opensource project rely on proprietary software AND protocol
> raises a lot of doubts to me.
> This is totally against what we try to achieve with QGIS itself.
>
> And personnaly, I will not open yet another account on yet another
> proprietary service for every single opensource software I contribute to.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
>
>


+1 Vincent, I couldn't agree more.


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