> So who did own the infrastructure, and where did they stand on all of this? All hardware was owned by various organizations acting as "sponsors". But at this

> So who did own the infrastructure, and where did they stand on all of this? All hardware was owned by various organizations acting as "sponsors". But at this point most of it might have been replaced by servers owned by Lee. One of the sponsors, whose server hosted freenode's email server, pulled out shortly after the volunteers left.