IRC Gateway
Slack has an IRC gateway that can be used cross platform for any OS that has IRC. (Windows, Linux, Unix, BSD, etc.) No need for native clients.
Ben
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Brad
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XMPP support would largely make Teams and Slack equivalent choices for our environment. I would strongly advocate that Teams implement XMPP support and commit to supporting open protocols in general.
Thanks,
Brad
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Harald Hauknes commented
I don't think Teams will never be used in my organization if no Linux native client or IRC-gateway exists. If we had any of those the situation would be very different.
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Bob
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At least an XMPP Gateway is definately needed.
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Maciej Michałek
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IRC and XMPP gateway is good idea.
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Michael Haertel
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+1 We use IRC internally and have an e-mail to IRC gateway for notifications, bots that automate changes to systems with simple IRC commands, etc.
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S. Paschall
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This would be a reasonable, temporary plug for the hole the lack of a native Linux client leaves in Teams' offering.
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Adminv-brorob
(Admin, Microsoft Teams)
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XMPP: Most of the other team chat systems give you the ability to access your teams through the industry-standard IRC and/or XMPP protocols
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Ole Markus With
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I bet many colleagues would love this. Not only a short-term alternative to a Linux client, but also for those who want the more compact layout.
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James Kregar
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This would be an acceptable alternative to a native Linux client, at least in the short term.
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Alexander Olofsson
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If you aim to be a complete Slack/HipChat/Mattermost/etc alternative, you most definitely want to allow people to access your system without requiring the use of the official client. Especially when you only have an official client for a single operating system.
Most of the other team chat systems give you the ability to access your teams through the industry-standard IRC and/or XMPP protocols, something that's noticeably lacking from Teams.