<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">
On May 28, 2021, at 1:57 AM, Christian MAUDERER <<a href="mailto:christian.mauderer@embedded-brains.de" class="">christian.mauderer@embedded-brains.de</a>> wrote:<br class="">
<div>
<blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">
<div class="">I still think it's a bit odd to say "Drop Freenode" because Freenode seems to go into a more commercial direction but at the same time say that the Discord (which seems to be commercial through and through) is a good alternative.<br class="">
<br class="">
In other words: As long as we don't mind using Discord, I would just keep the Freenode IRC just like it is.<br class="">
</div>
</blockquote>
<br class="">
</div>
<div>I’m not an IRC (or Discord) user so I won’t be affected whatever you decide, but I wouldn’t categorize what has been happening at Freenode as “going in a more commercial direction.” The fact that any mention of Libera.chat in a channel now seems to result
in that organization’s channels being taken over may be more of a risk than the RTEMS community would want to take. If Joel were to have even raised this question there you might have already lost control of those channels.</div>
<div><br class="">
</div>
<div>If you want more of the back-story, here’s a free link to Wednesday's LWN article at <a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/857140/9dcadcf209612879/" class="">https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/857140/9dcadcf209612879/</a> which is more up to date than The
Register story that Joel linked to.</div>
<div><br class="">
</div>
<div>- Andrew</div>
<br class="">
<div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">
<div>-- </div>
<div>Complexity comes for free, simplicity you have to work for.</div>
</div>
</div>
<br class="">
</body>
</html>