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If he has caused that much of a problem, then just move on. Block him, stop mentioning him by name, and forget about it. For the open source community, he no
by ilaksh 5y ago
If he has caused that much of a problem, then just move on. Block him, stop mentioning him by name, and forget about it. For the open source community, he no longer exists.
I mean I feel like changing the domain name is less of a problem than the one all of the 4000 people named Andrew Lee who are not that guy now have. It's a lot harder to change a legal name. So they will have to live with his bad reputation potentially rubbing off on them. But luckily online most people use aliases so that should mitigate it somewhat.
Libera.chat is a more modern name anyway.
- unixhero 5y agoHosting an irc Network is more work than you might think. Just a new domain name and a VPS with a service running on it might not be enough.
- a1369209993 5y agoSupposedly[0] all the servers and other network infrastructure are intact, and it's solely the domain names (freenode.{org,net,com}) that were compromised. Grain of salt, obviously, but they have at least claimed there isn't a problem there. 0: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409 https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...
- tinus_hn 5y agoSo what happened to the original service running on freenode.net? Is it down now?
- Arnavion 5y agoNothing. It's still up.
- a1369209993 5y ago(Again, supposedly) it's now running at libera.chat with superficial cosmetic changes. I haven't investigated this in any real depth though, so don't quote me on that.
- jhugo 5y agoFreenode is still up, at freenode.net, and libera is a new network, at libera.chat, operated by the former staff of Freenode.
- superkuh 5y ago>The server hardware is sponsored free of cost; we will occasionally receive an invoice for $0, but that's only because of how the accounting systems at some of our sponsors operate. I can't possibly imagine that the few freenode live conferences cost more than 50k; and all of the other miscellaneous expenses (like the renewal costs for the domain names) are well under a few hundred pounds per year. Anything he would have donated before Freenode Ltd's acquisition is unknown to me, but that would have been from the position of a benefactor, not a supposed owner. https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bdd66b8f491 https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bd...
- na85 5y agoLibera.chat is actually an awful name, but I still embrace the change and have already bid Freenode a permanent farewell.
- estaseuropano 5y agoThat is a subjective opinion, not objective fact. I think it rolls nicely.
- fairity 5y agoIt is both harder to spell and pronounce than freenode, and objectively worse, by those measures.
- outworlder 5y agoIs it hard to pronounce by whom? English speakers? I promise you any speaker of a latin-derived language will have no problems whatsoever.
- macintux 5y ago“Freenode” has only 1 possible pronunciation (and corresponding spelling) in English. “Libera” has 3 or 4 conceivable pronunciations and is harder to guarantee correctness when spoken. Fortunately I doubt IRC servers need to be communicated vocally all that often.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoIt's really tough to find an unencumbered name these days. Even made-up names like 'eelo' (Android distro) got in trouble because a tiny human resources company in the Netherlands was using the name 'eelloo'. Not even the same name, totally different business type but still they lost. Trademarks are applied ridiculously wide now and because of that all the good names are gone.