Even if you removed every other part of this comment, Mark Karpeles as CTO is more than enough by itself to stay very far away from this. Might as well hire Bernie Madoff as CFO of your new investment startup.
I’ve been running the open source kiwiirc.com project for around 7 years and have always been very careful of who has access to what and so far has been clear of any issues. Hopefully I can now bring the same scrutiny and planning to IRC.com too!
I use kiwiirc.com regularly and love it, by the way. Great work.