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I was thinking about incentives and motivations. Are they motivated by profits?
I was also thinking about how sometimes listening to everyone in a team can save them from failure. Do Proton and Tutanota listen to everyone?
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Interesting. Thanks for the reply!
I have also chatted with Tutanota workers and I didn't have the impression that they were not driven. In fact, I think about myself: if I was a good enough developer, experienced with their stack, I'd love to work with them just for what they stand up for regarding privacy and openness. It seems like a very gratifying way of spending my time.
As to the closed platforms, I totally agree with your criticism in purely abstract terms; I don't like that I need to rely on Tutanota for encrypted email instead of a federated system like XMPP or Matrix. However, Matrix has been an aspirational platform in which only my closest friends, and the wokest or tech-savvy acquaintances join. For a good chunk of my daily life, if I want libre, metadata-reduced, and encrypted communication, I have to rely on Tutanota's closed email system.
Do you think there's a way of extending email (rather than "reinventing the wheel") that's also as simple as "give me your email and let's agree on a password"?
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