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Counterpoint: Business equity does not confer ownership over labor. In this particular case, all you own from your equity is... - A handful of servers (which a

Counterpoint: Business equity does not confer ownership over labor. In this particular case, all you own from your equity is... - A handful of servers (which are cheap) - A name and a logo - Community goodwill, much of which has already been set aflame If the people running Freenode leave, and the people who used Freenode leave, then you don't really have anything left.

Karrot_Kream 5y ago
FWIW I don't think you two are in disagreement. Even if the owner of the business owes the volunteers nothing (which imo is strictly true), the _value_ of the organization lies in the work and social connections of the volunteers. Them leaving is just part of business, and if the now evacuated Freenode eats crow for it, that's their problem given the volunteers did the work anyway.