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I'm just suggesting that a service that touches email would benefit from being easier to trust. I never said he should commit to never making money or anything
by teleclimber 7y ago
I'm just suggesting that a service that touches email would benefit from being easier to trust. I never said he should commit to never making money or anything close to that. Like you literally invented that.
In fact I suggested he look into the open source + hosted business model. Ghost seems to be doing alright with it:
https://blog.ghost.org/5/ https://blog.ghost.org/5/
> It seems like it would be easier for you to just not evaluate new mail clients.
There are plenty of OSS mail clients. I was just looking at RoundCube the other day. It's actually pretty slick as far as traditional email clients go.
https://roundcube.net/ https://roundcube.net/
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