[mdlug] mdlug Digest, Vol 195, Issue 14

[Scott Wood]

re: Discord is freedom denying closed souce [sic] corporate proprietary
non-free software.

zomg, it's not commmieware?!?!?


On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:00 PM <mdlug-request at mdlug.org> wrote:

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>    1. Setup a Matrix server, Robert. (Richard Levitsky)
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> From: Richard Levitsky <richard at ideal-exchange.com>
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> Subject: [mdlug] Setup a Matrix server, Robert.
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> Setup a Matrix server then, Robert. The group is in need of one. I would
> support it over email.
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> Tried and true? So are Morse code and ice boxes and horse-drawn carriages.
> Try Discord or Matrix, and you won't ask such questions, Steve. There are a
> multitude of advantages in using one of those over a 20th century
> technology like email.
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> 1. Re: Why use Discord? (Robert James Fulner)
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> From: Robert James Fulner <fulner at alumni.nmu.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Why use Discord?
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> Discord is freedom denying closed souce corporate proprietary non-free
> software.
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> Most of the things people like to use Discord for coild be achieved as
> well if not better utilizing a free and open protocol like Matrix or
> XMPP/Jabber without having to give up essential freedoms.
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> As far as you being unable to find a message from this list it coulf just
> as easily your poor memory, or your particular email client that is causing
> search to fail :-D
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> In liberation,
> Jim
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> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:22:43 -0500
> From: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Why use Discord?
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> Robert James Fulner said on Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:03:23 +0000
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> Discord is freedom denying closed souce corporate proprietary
> non-free software.
>
> Most of the things people like to use Discord for coild be achieved as
> well if not better utilizing a free and open protocol like Matrix or
> XMPP/Jabber without having to give up essential freedoms.
>
> While we're at it, why not use email? It's tried and true and easy for
> all.
>
> SteveT
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> Steve Litt
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