Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

Easy prediction: people who have been taught to confuse #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource through the misleading terms #FOSS and #FLOSS will now be led to further accept the privatization of #knowledge by small, innovative (and easy to acquire) #ethical start-ups.

@freemo

Sound reasonable, actually.

Fine.
So let's do this way: give me 2 million dollars so that I can trust you that you will actually trust me and not just pretend to.

Then I'll buy you trust for the 1 million dollars you asked.

Ok deal? 🤣

@Tutanota

Nice!

I know it might look as a risky move from a business perspective.

But once you'll release your server side code, people will have a very good reasons to trust you as a secure service provider: your customers' trust will be your only competitive advantage.

As for me, I'm already trying your free tier, and so far seems pretty good.

But before switching my other domains I'd like to be sure I could self-host the service if should anything go wrong.

@Libertux@liberdon.com

@freemo 🤣

That's the point, though.

You can't buy #trust.

We are going towards a world where people #trust will be much more valuable than #wealth.

@Libertux@liberdon.com

At a first look, @Tutanota is impressive: apparently, you got #privacy right.

At a second look...
Shit! You got #privacy right! 😂

Even the #Android permissions are minimal! 😍

Now, let's be picky, with the sincere hope to help to further improve your product.

Two issues remain open with your services:

1. #DoS / #Censorship
2. #DDoS
3. #Business

Theoretically, you could easily deny your service to a user. So could someone who provide or otherwise control users' connectivity (a State, a ISP or simply a #corporate firewall).

Also you could theoretically be blocked through a DDoS (do you remember the #Chinese attack to #GitHub?).

Finally you could be bought by #Google, #Facebook, #Microsoft, #Alibaba or somebody else for a tons of money. Or you could be otherwise run out of business.

All of these are potential long term threats to your customers and users and share a common root: server code isn't #free.

Are you considering the option to release your server code under a #FreeSoftware license?

I'd suggest a very strong #copyleft, obviously.

This would mitigate all of these potential threats.

I understand that your server code gives you an edge... and as far as I can understand, it doesn't reduce people privacy... as long as the system stay up and reachable. 😉

Let me know your take on this.

And by the way... great work.

Really.

@leodurruti

Non mi è molto chiara l'ironia. 🤣

Puoi spiegare cosa trovi divertente?

L'articolo mi sembra buttar lì molti numeri senza spiegarli, analizzarli o confrontarli fra loro.

For a few seconds I thought #Mozilla actually cares about people's #privacy.

Then I read the last line.

https://send.firefox.com/legal