I think this is mostly throwing out chaff for PR purposes:
1) They're not giving the money back, or better and less conflict-of-interesty, giving it to a neutral pro-foss org like FSFE
2) They continue to intimately support freenode
3) Fosshost directors remain as freenode staff but in a """personal""" capacity, despite being overruled unanimously by the fosshost non-director staff.
Nothing concrete has changed, the only thing they have done is roll back their desire to integrate more deeply.
