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Like I recommended for Mozilla, they could use this money to acquire and/or create highly-usable alternatives to many products that are about handling communica
by nickpsecurity 9y ago
Like I recommended for Mozilla, they could use this money to acquire and/or create highly-usable alternatives to many products that are about handling communications or data in trustworthy way. Things like SpiderOak, VPN’s, backup apps for iOS/Android, HSM’s, payment services, paid email… anything that unscrupulous businesses have been a problem for with insecure solutions or them just cheating customers. Each one is turned into a commercial product either shared source or dual-licensed GPL/AGPL. The money coming in improves each both for new features and 3rd party review. Release code as GPL either on component level as they are built or as a whole after development cost was paid for. Many businesses will still pay for GPL-licensed code just to know someone is responsible for it.
Such models will gradually increase the number of trustworthy goods available through trustworthy suppliers over time. That’s the basic concept anyway.