> In 2017, the then head of staff at Freenode, Christel Dahlskjaer, incorporated it as Freenode Ltd and sold it to Andrew Lee. <...> the incorporation and sale was done just to sponsor a conference.
What a crazy turn of events for such an old project. Thanks for the link.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-...