Article note: Man, freenode has been a constant without too much drama for decades.
I haven't been real active in long enough that I have no idea what the situation is, but enough of the old guard leadership are bailing that it can't be good.
At least it's an open protocol and tooling so everyone can just move.
As an immigrat … I come from another culture. And I’m aware of the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differnetly from us. I can, sort of, see us, us Americans, with their eyes. And not all that I see is attractive. I see an insular people who are insensitive to foreign sensibilites, who are lazy, obese, complacent, and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined.
— (Kenyan-American Biograpeher) Edmund Morris on CBS’ Face The Nation