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Just invent an awesome and innovative set of cryptographic protocols, make an incredibly usable set of secure communications tools with them, and agree to give
by schoen 5y ago
Just invent an awesome and innovative set of cryptographic protocols, make an incredibly usable set of secure communications tools with them, and agree to give them away for free to the world. Hopefully you will be blessed in return with the same kind of support that Moxie was!
- bigiain 5y agoIt also helps if you can find someone with $16 billion of Facebooks blood money burning a hole in their conscience. And a hundred mil or so that'd fallen behind the couch cushions they can throw your way as a PR stunt or reputation management exercise...
- ignoramous 5y agoI get your skepticism, but on the other hand I don't see the Jan Koums of the world throwing their money away, even if for PR. Acton is walking the talk, and it looks like his presence has meant some ex WhatsApp engs have joined him at Signal, too. What more could this man do?
- ARandomerDude 5y ago> Facebooks blood money burning a hole in their conscience Better late than never. Never seems more typical.
- goodpoint 5y agoA million developers are contributing to FLOSS projects (including openssl) and get pennies at best. The difference is that Signal is a walled garden and suddenly somebody pays for that.
- berkes 5y agoWhich is why it is extremely important to have a solid 'business'model behind your FLOSS project. To align sustained development and ongoing maintainance with a FLOS licence model. Because the alternative is to have volunteers spending their evenings and weekends on hobby projects that sometimes grow way over their hobbyish status. Which is both scary and sad.