Personally, I don't know what the big deal is with the OP's in a public irc channel is. I know of at least a couple of alliances that give OP's to their allies, friends, former members (I was banned from a couple of public channels by someone who was not in the alliance of said channels lol). I view public channels kind of like the corner bar and the channel OP's as the bouncers, As long as they don't act like asshats and abuse the OPs, who cares?