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I’m in the camp of whatever title seems less biased and more directly describes what is happening should win out. As someone with only a passing interest in fr

I’m in the camp of whatever title seems less biased and more directly describes what is happening should win out. As someone with only a passing interest in freenode which I used to use but no longer do, learning they were bought is much more relevant than the implication they formed a partnership. I understand that there is grey area over whether they were “bought”, but a partnership doesn’t seem to cover what went down in any way.

thih9 5y ago
> a partnership doesn’t seem to cover what went down in any way True, but we only know that in hindsight. At the time the claim about acquisition was disputed [1] [2]. If somebody replied with information about voting rights [3] then perhaps the "joining forces" title would have been treated as misleading and replaced with "purchased by". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102301 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102139 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207992