Re:“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]
by Macha on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:00PM
(#27236688)
The ownership chain of Freenode was
1. Rob Levin/Lilo, personally
2. Open Projects Network
3. ???
4. PDPC
5. Christel, personally
6. freenode ltd.
7. Andrew Lee (via freenode ltd)
After PDPC, what christel personally owned to transfer to freenode ltd to sell to Andrew Lee is... hard to define. A domain and a website, sure. But christel didn't own the servers, did not employ people, and does not have any agreement with the users, something which continued into freenode ltd. And apart from the users, operators, servers, and domain, it's not clear what an IRC network is to own.
1. Rob Levin/Lilo, personally
2. Open Projects Network
3. ???
4. PDPC
5. Christel, personally
6. freenode ltd.
7. Andrew Lee (via freenode ltd)
After PDPC, what christel personally owned to transfer to freenode ltd to sell to Andrew Lee is... hard to define. A domain and a website, sure. But christel didn't own the servers, did not employ people, and does not have any agreement with the users, something which continued into freenode ltd. And apart from the users, operators, servers, and domain, it's not clear what an IRC network is to own.