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IRC Will Never Die (2021)
The big kerfuffle in the open source world this week surrounds the biggest IRC server operator, Freenode. Wherever the dust settles, myriad important open source projects use Freenode’s IRC s…
The big kerfuffle in the open source world this week surrounds the biggest IRC server operator, Freenode. If you want help with a Linux distribution, you’ll be set straight within a few minutes in the relevant channel, because the people who wrote, packaged, or maintain it are probably on Freenode waiting to chat. IRC servers don’t run themselves, and Freenode’s admins fought and won an epic battle with spammers a couple years back.
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