Company:Libera Chat
Libera Chat, stylized Libera.Chat, is an IRC network for free and open-source software projects. It was founded on 19 May 2021[1] by former Freenode staff members, after Freenode was taken over by Andrew Lee, founder of Private Internet Access.[2][3][4]
History
Freenode
In 2017, Christel Dahlskjaer, then the head of staff at Freenode, incorporated a new company called Freenode Limited and transferred ownership to technology entrepreneur Andrew Lee.[5][3][6] In February 2021, Dahlskjaer added the logo of Shells, a company co-founded by Lee, to the Freenode website.[3] Following criticism from staff, Dahlskjaer resigned from the leadership of Freenode,[6][3] and Freenode staff elected Tom Wesley as the new head of staff. Lee allegedly removed a blog post explaining the leadership changes and, on 11 May, appointed a new person to oversee the Freenode infrastructure.[3] Freenode staff members resigned en masse, and some published statements outlining their view of what happened and claiming that Lee had been applying legal pressure to Wesley.[3]
Lee denied these claims, and said that he had provided Freenode with millions of dollars and was entitled to Freenode's servers as the owner of Freenode Limited.[3][6] Lee also accused Wesley of harassing Dahlskjaer and of attempting a "hostile takeover."[3][7][6][8]
Libera Chat
After resigning from Freenode, the former staff created Libera Chat on 19 May 2021.[2][3] They have described the network as a successor to Freenode, which they intend to focus around "free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavours".[6] Many major projects like Bitcoin, FrOSCon, Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, FreeBSD, the Free Software Foundation[9] and Wikimedia have since moved their channels from Freenode to Libera Chat and to other IRC networks.[10]
References
- ↑ "Libera Chat" (in en). https://libera.chat/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Beschizza, Rob (19 May 2021). "Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network" (in en-US). https://boingboing.net/2021/05/19/freenode-irc-staff-quit-after-new-owner-seizes-control.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (19 May 2021). "Developers Flee Open Source Project After 'Takeover' By Korean Crown Prince" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-korea-crown-prince-takeover.
- ↑ Salter, Jim (24 May 2021). "Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea's "crown prince"". https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/.
- ↑ Dahlskjaer, Christel (12 April 2017). "PIA and freenode joining forces". https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Nardi, Tom (19 May 2021). "Freenode debacle prompts staff exodus, new network". Hackaday. https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-staff-exodus-new-network/.
- ↑ Claburn, Thomas (19 May 2021). "Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management". The Register. https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resigns/.
- ↑ Lee, Andrew (19 May 2021). "Letter to freenode". https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e4075d2d48.
- ↑ "FSF and GNU move official IRC channels to Libera.Chat network". Jun 11, 2021. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-gnu-move-official-irc-channels-to-libera-chat-network.
- ↑ Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (26 May 2021). "Major Internet Projects Are Leaving Freenode After Korean Prince 'Takeover'" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbgvg/major-internet-projects-are-leaving-freenode-after-korean-prince-takeover.
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