Very Interested, but what markers are there for me to trust you/your company? Is it Open Source? Have you been around for long? Are you audited? Is there a sustainable business model?
Fair question. As of this writing, there isn't anything to trust me short of sniffing all the packets coming out of the phone and/or decompiling the APK.
While in beta, I'm not charging, but in order to align my interests with those of users I will be charging for it once I'm done beta testing. So far I've only been testing with family and close friends.
The app isn't currently open source, but I want to find a license model that will let folks see the source code while still preventing someone from forking it and running their own instance of my company. As you noted, this needs to be a sustainable endeavor, and I think that would be unlikely if I just release it all under MIT or BSD-3
It's too early for an audit (and I don't have the money for one yet), but I'm using libsodium for the crypto so there's no need to worry about me writing my own bad crypto primitves.
The website is sparse, because the current audience for it is my family and friends who I've contacted about helping me with the beta testing. I intend to flesh out the site a lot more before I come out of beta.
You could do a reference source-type thing, where it isn't open source and using your source is prohibited, but people can browse it for specified purposes, such as auditing security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Initiative#Restr...
Copyleft open source licenses only help you so much, people can still clone your company as long as their version is also open source. There's no way to prohibit corporate use of your code and still have an OSI-approved license.
The spot that kinda falls between those two classes is if you want people to be able to fork or self-host for personal/non-commercial use, and there's a few also not open source license examples out there for that too. There's a couple of that sort listed under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software (Commons Clause or Mega Limited Code Review sound fairly similar to what you might want.)
Despite being a big fan of copyleft, the "source available" license sounds like the right direction for Zood. Thanks for that link. I had not heard about Commons Clause or Mega Limited Code Review. I'll dig into it those.
Understanding non-altered History, science communication, one-or-more scientific fields, marketing, and the human mind is much more than almost anyone can hope to achieve.
This means that both bad science and improper understanding of science will continue.
This headline is incorrect for how little is actually measured in this study. It's like staying that rammed earth houses are bad for the environment because they use more dirt that otherwise might be growing plants - so everyone should build with lumber instead.
They invented a new metric called "Carbon Opportunity Cost" and only looked at one thing: some types of organic farming require more land area which might be otherwise left for forest.
There are so many things that go into farming and a true evaluation of "climate" impact. Synthetic chemical production, environmental contamination, soil depletion, shipping, chemical runoff, farming equipment production and emissions, etc...
Even the researcher understands this: "The type of food is often much more important. For example, eating organic beans or organic chicken is much better for the climate than to eat conventionally produced beef"
> "The type of food is often much more important. For example, eating organic beans or organic chicken is much better for the climate than to eat conventionally produced beef"
There's something strange about that quote, maybe a PR sound? I imagine conventionally produced beans and chicken would have less impact than organic beef as well.
And if anyone is aware of Matrix integration in a traditional email client at this point, I'd be grateful to know of it.
Seems like it ought to be an opportunity to lure non-technical users into using something with better security potential than email while staying with the letter as a metaphor and a familiar interface.
There is support in Mozilla Thunderbird - but as a chat mode, rather than email as you might be expecting. You can enable it by changing the value of "chat.prpls.prpl-matrix.disable" to false in the advanced config editor. Still, since it really just enables a chat client, another Matrix client might be better suited.
