danieldle

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   by danieldle 5y ago

   It would not have collapsed at all. It simply disappeared because the sponsor of it was a sponsor of freenode, and didn't want to be a sponsor of Andrew Lee. This is entirely up to them and their decision, it is their box, their money.
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   by danieldle 5y ago

   freenode didn't use 1m in the whole 20 years it existed. Infrastructure: all sponsored Staffers: all volunteers Development: all FOSS Third party services like GitHub: all sponsored so what exactly would it have used > 1m on, pleas
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   by danieldle 5y ago

   Hostile takeover by and from whom? It was ran by the very staff that all left. No exceptions, all of them. So who exactly where they taking it away from? The appointed heads were appointed by all of staff, democratically, as your very PDF p
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   by danieldle 5y ago

   Obviously bullshit, freenode is older than your company, and when it was founded you were not even known. The IRC network freenode was ran by, managed by, developed by and loved by volunteers. You came in like a wrecking ball and destroyed
5. 5.▲
   by danieldle 5y ago

   I see that you are spreading your falsehoods here, too. The issue with services was not due to the "previous team", but rather due to the sponsor pulling their box. The "previous team" had no access to them by that point