....Discourse, the software
are
using, has been around since 2014, and is entirely open source (not
merely
open core, which is a rare pleasant situation I'm happy to
encourage).
Six or seven years, and not on a platform governed by an IEEE/IETF
standard, though. I'll have to dig through it to understand its
internals to put my mind at ease, as, I think my primary dependence on
IRC is that it's goverend by an RFC-driven protocol so, you know, if
that system fails, another will pop up that implements that protocol.
Same for mailing lists.
That also means there's a whole downstream ecosystem of tools around
them both.
On the IBM comments, let me add: I've seen no evidence of any
undue
IBM
influence on Red Hat's corporate plans (and while I'm not exactly a
corporate suit, I'm positioned well enough that I'd notice), *let
alone* on
Fedora. In fact, I'd really love to see IBM become a little more
involved.
Our resourcing from Red Hat is pretty narrowly focused (on RHEL
success),
and IBM could help invest in some more speculative things and wider
community priorities. But, as of so far, no influence for either ill
*or*
good.
Well. I just hope both Fedora and RedHat keep in memory that they were
bought because they were successful. IBM needed them not the other way
around.
I sound like I hate IBM. I actually don't. I'm just mid-scramble
watching all the movement with these acquisitions the last few years
(not just RH) and still trying to get a decent view of where it's
going.
Some of that's an artifact of the legacy the corporate space has with
open source. If monolithic fortune lists collaborate to deplatform a
troll like Alex Jones, who knows what they'll do to establish an
oligarchy in the systems and software markets worth trillions of
dollars in investment returns.
:: puts on a tin foil fedora ::
-C