Developers flee Freenode after ‘takeover’ by Korean crown prince

Developers of the open source organization Freenode are quitting en masse after Andrew Lee, a tech entrepreneur and the Crown Prince of Korea, has taken control of the network in what developers are describing as an hostile takeover."

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On Wednesday, a dozen Freenode staff volunteers published posts announcing their resignations, which explain their decision to quit. The broad strokes of the letters explain that they believe Lee bought the entire Freenode network under what they believe are false-but legal-pretenses, and that they have lost control over the network. They said there is little the staff can do to oppose changes that Lee wants to implement.

The now former staff members announced that they are launching a new chat network, Libera.chat, to continue Freenode's mission.

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