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Heh, same pattern as ever: corporation takes over, first thing they do is push ads and deploy surveillance. Looks like FOSS projects are vulnerable for their "trademark" (everything other than code and community) takeover. Sounds similar to what have happened to Audacity and OpenOffice before.
There needs to be a better way to protect projects from this form of aggression.
Ultimatly the problem was that a single corruptable individual held the rights to the name and other vital stuff. For a project of the size and importance like Freenode this is highly irregular.
It's called cryptoidiocy here in the thread (after your comment) but the better way is actually the crypto concept of DAO: Decentralised Autonomous Organisation.
It's a bit weird to see crypto, of which one of the fundamentals is being decentralised, being called idiocy on a forum which wants to be decentralised...