On 21.05.2021 09:22, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 04:15:23PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
For contrast:
"The Panic Over Freenode Isn’t Justified and Its Reaction Mostly
Disproportionate"
http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/freenode-and-cancel-culture/
It took me a while to find an article that covered the issue in what seems a
more balanced way than most, and I just want to share that. I still don't know
how to judge the whole thing.
This article doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Obviously the staff who left are very, very angry about issues that
have been going on for a while.
I don't believe for a second that a dispute over a sponsorship logo
on the web site alone would explain this.
Every time I hear (or read) someone explaining how "one of my companies
is funding this free service", I grab my wallet and run away.
"Monetizing" community-lead and -created services has been a thing since
before the Internet. This is probably no different.
-- Brane
P.S.: ICANN and .org, anyone? Different scale, same methods.
