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They did address the ownership. It's a non-profit. The people running the show are associated with many of the greatest open source projects. Projects where li
by ilaksh 5y ago
They did address the ownership. It's a non-profit. The people running the show are associated with many of the greatest open source projects. Projects where literal geniuses have donated thousands of hours to make software and services available to you and I free of charge.
You know how Discord now has a channel for every game or new service that comes out? Freenode IRC has always been like that, except for core and interesting FOSS systems. For example, actual Linux maintainers might be in a #linux channel, and the guy who invented the Nim programming language would hang out in #nim.
The people running the show are those people and friends of those people.
The guy who was f'ing with it was just some greedy guy who got control of the domain name and lied and said he wouldn't interfere with the non-profit activities. But then he started advertising lame services on the home page and messing with the networking etc.
So they fixed it by getting a new domain. Because they are problem solvers.
- void_mint 5y agoIs this satire?
- ilaksh 5y agoWhat on earth makes you think that?
- Lammy 5y agoWe have the best geniuses — the best! My father — great man; very smart; raised me well — my father told me computers are the most important. We do the software, and we do the best software, and we're WINNING!
- SamBam 5y agoBecause it's hyperbolic, most if it is just fawning about how great Freenode was which had nothing to do with the question, and it did not answer the question at all. Original question: "there is not a single name of a real person anywhere on the site that I can find. there is only a reference to ownership by "a non-profit association in Sweden." Is it normal for the staff of such a project to be secret?" Your answer: "They did address the ownership. It's a non-profit." Not named. And then you had a bunch of stuff about unnamed people who chose not to put their names or nicks anywhere on the site, when the question is "why wouldn't they associated their names/nicks with this?"
- ilaksh 5y agoIt's not hyperbolic, it was the literal truth, and all of it is relevant because the question implies they do not know what Freenode was. The staff are not secret. They have names on the network. Those nicks are published (at least on the old site, not sure if that has been transferred to new yet) and well-known. The one guy who's name everyone knows is undisputably trying to profit from a non-profit organization, which he previously lied and said he would not, and in so doing has caused the worst disruption possible. So that proves that names don't actually help us.
- void_mint 5y agoIt's definitely hyperbolic. You responded to "Who owns this" with "Look how smart/iconic these unverified people are". It reads like (good) satire. The perceived esteem of some of the users are unrelated to the validity/integrity of a company.
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- ryanlol 5y agoWell yeah, apparently the people behind “Linux for Niggers” run #linux now. Literal geniuses. > people running the show are associated with many of the greatest open source projects That’s the thing with open source. Anyone can associate themselves with the greatest open source projects. The people running the show are mostly not people playing significant roles in the greatest open source projects.