# Is IRC in danger of a monopoly?

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## Freenode Owner's Funding Expands

-> London Trust Media Holdings and [Andrew Lee] ... funding, sponsorships, and other contributions have been and will continue to be provided to IRC clients like KiwiIRC and weechat, IRC networks like freenode, snoonet, DALnet, and EuropNet.

-> ...

-> Today, I'd like to introduce a few new projects that we are soon launching alongside notable IRC communities:

-> IRC.com (A professional, friendly network for huge communities)

-> ...

-> Yours truly, Andrew Lee

-> Co-founder, London Trust Media Holdings

-> http://web.archive.org/web/20181207230330/https://www.irc.com/lets-take-irc-further

-> Snoonet is expanding its family and linking up with the new IRC network, IRC.com.

-> https://snoonet.org/posts/2018/11/22/important-changes-to-snoonet-and-a-partnership-with-irccom

-> SaberUK on Dec 9, 2018 []

-> Full disclosure: i'm being paid to work on InspIRCd for use on the IRC.com network. 

-> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18637152

-> prawnsalad on June 22, 2018 [<E2><80><93>]

-> I'm part of LTM and starting to build up irc.com, along with founding kiwiirc.com.

-> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17375831

-> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644090

-> #ircdocs on Freenode · GitHub

-> LTM/PIA and me~

-> Made by Daniel Oaks 

-> https://web.archive.org/web/20210507003605/https://ircdocs.horse/

-> LTM/PIA and IRC

-> Yo# My name's Daniel, or DanielOaks, and I run the ircdocs sites. I've worked at Private Internet Access / London Trust Media for a long while now# Like, three years or so. And in that time, I've been very lucky that they've let me work on IRC stuff on the side. 

-> ...

-> Spec nerds / devs that work for LTM/PIA:

-> Daniel (me)

-> Prawnsalad

-> Spec nerds / devs who’re sponsored by LTM:

-> Sadie (through IRC.com to work on InspIRCd)

-> Projects that are owned by LTM:

-> KiwiIRC

-> IRC.com

-> Networks that are owned by LTM:

-> freenode

-> Snoonet

-> https://archive.is/ouroN

## IRC.com, where's the source?

-> As part of the KiwiIRC.com open source project this application will be open sourced as a generic multi network IRC client in the near future.

-> https://github.com/irccom/mobileapp

As of May 24, 2021, there is no source code but it is being distributed on Google Play:

-> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.irc.ircclient&hl=en_US&gl=US