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		crispyporkbites on March 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack's bait and switch See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

patrickaljord on March 12, 2018 [–]

They never embraced IRC, they just had a gateway for people still using it. This would be valid if Slack's protocol was based on IRC and they later extended it and made it incompatible with IRC. This is not the case here.

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