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That's what contracts are for.

Networks differ massively on these points. Of course. My intent with that post was not to get into a discussion about why Freenode was right or wrong in making their decision - lik…

nenolod is not a freenode staffer . The impression I got was that freenode felt they were going above and beyond in offering an alternative webchat to mibbit users, which they didn…

I sat on the same channel you did, and I came away with a fundamentally different impression. The "make mibbit OS" were either jokes or a precursor to explaining why they prefer th…

You really do think the worst of everyone don't you. I wonder what that says about you? That he's someone I'd hire to deal with network security.

It's not a question of "they don't trust Mibbit", it's just basic security practice. Anyone , even a freenode staffer running his personal project, would not have that trust extend…

Old scenario - people are using mibbit to very easily banevade - crap. Scenario #1 + #2 - the proxy will be banned or the user refused connection. There is no distinction because t…

You should probably point out here that nenolod was one of the non-freenode-staff members in #freenode at that point, presenting his personal opinion. It's about as germane to this…

This is either deliberate FUD or an accidental misconstruing of what they said. I'm not a freenode staffer, but I was in the channel while this discussion was ongoing. What they di…

Lisp. I've snagged a copy of On Lisp and of SICP, and am working through the 6.001 lectures.