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#debian & IRC Politics

Posted by Hemos on from the ah-the-joys-of-politics dept.

eyez writes "Apparently, the recent decision of OPN(now freenode) to ask for donations has ruffled the feathers of a few debian people. This article on DebianPlanet talks about the current discussion on the debian mailing lists which talks about the possibility of moving #debian (and #debian*) off of OPN altogether."

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  1. Re:If you build it, they will come by dzym · · Score: 5, Informative
    That's not quite the point.

    For some better insight as to what was going on at the time, you should read at the very least this page.

    See petition here.

    Read Eterm developer Michael Jennings' thoughts on the matter here.

  2. What I think the story is by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Informative
    Lilo (Rob Levin) contacted me some time ago looking for support for him to operate OPN full-time. My response was, and still is, that rather than have an organized IRC network operated by Rob, various projects should operate their own IRC servers, not very differently from the way that many projects operate mail and FTP servers.

    I fear (and I could be wrong) that Lilo has mixed up his personal goals with his estimation of the importance of the project to the community.

    If and when I have grant money to hand out, either my own or that of a corporate sponsor, it will go directly to Free Software authors for production of Free Software, and to efforts to preserve our right to code like EFF.

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.