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mchahn on Jan 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: An open letter of gratitude to GitHub

Mozilla has a hard rule that they can't use closed-software for anything. I bitched about their 20-year-old-technology mailing lists and they said they had no choice. They couldn't use google-groups, et. al., because they were closed-source.

hueving on Jan 17, 2016 [–]

That's good. I think it's important to support open source rather than a closed source service with lock-in.

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