What a mess! I hope the PSF is healthy enough that that will never happen to us.
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 8:55 AM Ammar Askar <am...@ammaraskar.com> wrote: > This section on wikipedia > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_conflict > and this article have a good summary: > > https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-staff-exodus-new-network/ > > Essentially what happened is that freenode was bought out a while ago > by a company, there was some dispute over access between the "rightful > owners" and the self-organized freenode staff. This caused the > freenode staff to resign and start a new network called libera.chat. > After that a bunch of channels moved over to libera chat and most > recently if your topic mentioned libera.chat, the new freenode owners > will take it over, ban anyone from chatting in it and change the topic > (as happened with #python-fr). > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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