Trying to move a large set of person to change their habits is hard and tiring. It reminds me like when we tried to convince people to stop using Microsoft Offi

Trying to move a large set of person to change their habits is hard and tiring. It reminds me like when we tried to convince people to stop using Microsoft Office and adopt OpenOffice instead. The sad situation is that the only alternative that convinced people to do so has been Google Documents, which is a cure worse than the disease. Regarding the business model, I would love a world based on open source foundations where everybody contribute the way they can, but I have grew pessimistic on this. Making software is hard and expensive and making a product is even harder and expensive. IMO making an app like Signal is much more different that making a pure software product like the Linux Kernel. And, again, large, successfully project have been, well, successfully, often because large companies adopted them giving money and developers (which brings us to the bulshitty business model).