Last I heard, freenode does not respect any project decisions: the channel management ends up with freenode staff quite easily.Marginally accurate but very misleading. A project does not implicitly "own" any channels which are named after it.
I did not say "own" deliberately. I think this is a matter of respect. freenode has gone against the express wishes of other projects. Will it respect Debian? If not, should we point irc.debian.org at a service that is out of control?
Their current web site seems to be quiet about what influence a project can have over its channel.The webside doesn't bother to say how much influence a Belgian can have over a channel either - why should it?
I think how freenode handles the official channel of a Belgian is not the discussion here, although there may be some similarities.
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