Fosshost-Freenode Partnership Discontinued

Fosshost-Freenode Partnership Discontinued(fosshost.org)

11 points by zatertip 5 years ago | 5 comments

I think this is mostly throwing out chaff for PR purposes:

1) They're not giving the money back, or better and less conflict-of-interesty, giving it to a neutral pro-foss org like FSFE

2) They continue to intimately support freenode

3) Fosshost directors remain as freenode staff but in a """personal""" capacity, despite being overruled unanimously by the fosshost non-director staff.

Nothing concrete has changed, the only thing they have done is roll back their desire to integrate more deeply.

zatertip 5 years ago | |

Staff continuing on as freenode staff is really dodgy, especially now that #python was just manually hijacked in the last 24 hours and Python foundation staff klined. Not a good look to be in such company.

app4soft 5 years ago | |

> Nothing concrete has changed

There was one concrete change[0] just three days ago:

> Application reviews are backlogged and new applications are temporarily suspended

[0] https://fosshost.org/news/applications-temporarily-suspended

zatertip 5 years ago |

Fosshost just announced that they have discontinued the previously announced partnership with freenode.

Previously:

Fosshost Enters Partnership with Freenode

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27366364

Freenode and Fosshost Partner to Empower FOSS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371829

immibis 5 years ago |

Good, freenode is toxic