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<klys>damo22, hi

<damo22>hey

<damo22>i heard freenode is under threat to a hostile takeover

<damo22>:(

<klys> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338

<klys>that?

<damo22> https://p.haavard.me/407

<damo22>ugh it was taken down

<damo22>hmm

<damo22>dang i didnt save it

<Gooberpatrol66> https://pastebin.com/ADVa4mLp

<damo22>Someone called Andrew Lee is making a legal claim to the services hosted at freenode.net yeah thats it Gooberpatrol66!

<klys>does libera.chat have the alis bot?

<damo22>alis?

<klys>or other bots, geordi, infobot, or dpkg?

<damo22>idk

<damo22>its not open to the public yet apparently

<damo22>the world has gone nuts

<damo22>everything is going down the pan

<klys>well as of today I am running three irc servers at ircx.us

<klys>not that it means anything important

<damo22>we should not fragment the community by creating more ircs

<damo22>we need to fight it somehow and protect freenode

<klys>well matrix exists and can solve those problems

<damo22>its not a technical issue, its a matter of principle

<klys>whose principles are at stake?

<damo22>freenode has served the community for many many years

<klys>I mean as of today

<damo22>why should we just roll over and let some guy take it

<klys>can you answer it? who is there?

<damo22>?

<damo22>sorry i dont follow

<klys>I have not come to fight you

<damo22>right

<klys>did you learn those things in #freenode ?

<damo22>no a friend pointed me to the link

<klys>I am afraid I don't follow freenode staff very closely either

<klys>do you use debian? autotools? are you an fsf member? have you been reading much chatter?

<damo22>all of the above

<klys>well that tells me I should be more concerned

<klys>I am open to technical solutions and I'm not sure why you are debating me on the principple

<damo22>personally, i prefer IRC and i like freenode

<damo22>i dont want to see it destroyed

<damo22>if some corporate entity takes over freenode they can steer it into a direction it was never intended, and fragment the community

<damo22>it weakens the cause of free software

<damo22>even if you have a technical solution to bridge it to other networks, its not the point

<damo22>i want to protect freenode as a genuine free software supporter

<damo22>i wrote to FSF about it

<damo22>hopefully they can help

<Noisytoot>damo22, There's https://web.archive.org/web/20210515030713/https://p.haavard.me/407, but parts of it seem to have disappeared since yesterday

<Noisytoot>Actually, they haven't disappeared, but for some reason I have to scroll to see it

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