CERN Replacing Facebook Workplace With A Set Of Open-Source Software Alternatives

[fuzz]

So, never attribute to principal what can be adequately explained by pocketbook issues.

These projects wouldn't be free without said principles. One's lack of understanding of that doesn't make it less true.

[Michael_S]

You're probably right. Maybe something like this would help make IRC popular again? https://www.irccloud.com/ You can even use it with teams (actual teams, not the MS service).

Sounds good to me, now to sell my employers on it.

I'm in my 40s but I've only used IRC a few times myself. In the 1990s I was mostly chatting with people over telnet.

[Vistaus]

It's fine, nothing wrong with it. But I am 99% sure you're a rarity in your age group.

You're probably right. Maybe something like this would help make IRC popular again? https://www.irccloud.com/ You can even use it with teams (actual teams, not the MS service).

[onicsis]

What can happen to users data sometime deliberately destroyed by corporations.

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[creative]

The topic is near ROFL material. Such an organization as CERN which I have a high degree of respect for, most especially knowing what they are trying to observe in relationship to the wave pattern interference construct of this universe—was using a garbage reality tunnel service such as facebook, hilarious. Kudos for moving to a better reality tunnel.

Now to bask in the beauty and splendor of my own hubris for just proving that wormholes do exist and can be navigated like highways.

[King Mucus]

Further proof that astrophysics is a sexist field! >

#outrage

[onicsis]

ImHO from the beginning Facebook was not designed to offer infrastructure for some big project, supposedly [absurdly] Linus change his mind wanting to to give up old LKML infrastructure, replacing with what Facebook can offer for communications. Thinking this can not happen because of technical reasons, Facebook it's a social network.

[pal666]

Mattermost is a reasonable Slack clone, we're winding down use of it at my workplace however, in favour of Microsoft Teams, which isn't as bad as it sounds

compared to slack teams is a joke

[stormcrow]

An understatement. These are the people who invented the Web, after all.

What CERN does, the experimental physics community usually follows. Much of their software, practices, etc are used by other projects around the world. Any collaborative associations would definitely be following along.

[Veto]

For CERN, this is at least as much about money as any principals (although for some the principals matter too).... So, never attribute to principal what can be adequately explained by pocketbook issues.

True. However, in most big organizations pocketbook issues seems to be trumped by career-safe investment choices.