I am strongly against this pay-for-opennet strategy until we've exhausted other funding options. To my knowledge we have only contacted 3 potential donors out of many! Frankly, I doubt we could even put together a successful kickstarter campaign at this point, given that we can't bother to write a few letters. If we care about funding, our immediate goal should be to finish the donation letter and start tailoring it to individual donors. (I have not focused on this either, mea culpa)
I realize the motivation for pay-for-opennet is also to improve security, but others have already raised enough concerns about that aspect. Cheers, Dan Am Montag, 30. November 2015, 15:29:25 schrieb Matthew Toseland: > 3. Opennet is not secure unless users pay for introduction. Even regular E-Mail providers, G+ and Facebook did not find a way to get a significant number of users to pay — for a service which is clearly essential for todays communication. Why do you think people would pay for Freenet? People pay for VPNs because VPNs promise them faster, anonymous copyright infringement — I’ve seen the ads on torrent sites. The Freenet Project cannot promise that without encouraging copyright infringement — which we don’t. And our communication sucks — with this thread a perfect example of why it sucks. As much as I’m irked by the often toxic behavior of niqnaq: this is something he’s right on. We have an existing userbase. These users are our greatest asset. We might not like all of them, but at the same time there are many awesome people using Freenet. We’re neglecting them. We’re not doing the easy fixes. Instead we’re saying “let’s make you pay to keep using Freenet”. We need more people running Darknet, so why don’t we think of a way to secure Opennet via Darknet? Darknet connections are the only thing at which attackers don’t win trivially. And it might turn out that for funding, this pull request is the most important of them all: https://github.com/freenet/website/pull/28 Best wishes, Arne -- Celebrate with ye beauty and gather yer friends for a Pirate Party! → http://1w6.org/english/flyerbook-rules#pirate-party ← _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
