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I never drank the Single Founder kool-aid either. Completely off-topic, cperciva, but regarding your startup, why are you giving away your strongest asset (sec
by aswanson 19y ago
I never drank the Single Founder kool-aid either.
Completely off-topic, cperciva, but regarding your startup, why are you giving away your strongest asset (secure backup implementation and code) in order to make money on an increasingly commoditized product (the storage itself)? I would think it would be in your interest to do the opposite. Am I missing something?
- cperciva 19y agoI'm not giving away the tarsnap code. I'll make the source code available for people to inspect (and compile for themselves) so that they don't have to blindly trust the binaries I provide; but it will be under a "you can use this only as part of the tarsnap backup service" license.
- aswanson 19y agoI see. At any rate, you may want to consider divorcing your product from any particular storage scheme. Corporate customers, who usually honor licenses, have tons of unused storage (on every desktop). You might want to consider a distributed scheme where, from a common management tool, an operator could have a virtual encrypted backup across an enterprise. In any event, good luck and godspeed.
- cperciva 19y agoyou may want to consider divorcing your product from any particular storage scheme I've considered that, and might do that at some point in the future. That said, I'm aiming more at the home user / small business market -- large corporations have other options (e.g., backup appliances from EMC and suchlike). I figure that I'll build the version of tarsnap that I want to use, and if/when that becomes popular I'll decide where to go next based on demand.