>The server hardware is sponsored free of cost; we will occasionally receive an invoice for $0, but that's only because of how the accounting systems at some of our sponsors operate. I can't possibly imagine that the few freenode live conferences cost more than 50k; and all of the other miscellaneous expenses (like the renewal costs for the domain names) are well under a few hundred pounds per year. Anything he would have donated before Freenode Ltd's acquisition is unknown to me, but that would have been from the position of a benefactor, not a supposed owner.
https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bd...