> who owns the infrastructure Third party sponsors, who offer it to be used for the IRC network. Same for the connectivity I imagine. Of course the fun bit is

> who owns the infrastructure Third party sponsors, who offer it to be used for the IRC network. Same for the connectivity I imagine. Of course the fun bit is when you realize the donors have relationship with essentially random staffers. Not with Freenode ltd or with Ander Lee. As far as I can gather, the ownership of Freenode-the-brand ended up with christel through a technicality. christel then went ahead and sold this to Ander Lee without consulting with any of the other staff. Regardless of whether this move is legal or not, it's quite clearly a dick move. Freenode-the-network is a combination of the branding plus the community. The branding has been sold. The community is in the process of moving to irc.libera.chat. The whole thing is a bit of a ship of Theseus situation complicated by the fact that all the parts getting replaced and moved around can reasonably be refered to as "freenode". Edit: Not to mention there is disagreement about some fairly basic facts such as who said what. There's not much room for interpretation there.