W dniu czwartek, 1 grudnia 2016 00:56:11 UTC+1 użytkownik Andrew David Wong napisał: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Dear Qubes Community, > > Since the initial launch [01] of Qubes OS back in April 2010, work on Qubes > has been funded in several different ways. Originally a pet project, it was > first supported by Invisible Things Lab [02] (ITL) out of the money we earned > on various R&D and consulting contracts. Later, we decided that we should try > to > commercialize it. Our idea, back then, was to commercialize Windows AppVM > support. Unlike the rest of Qubes OS, which is licensed under GPLv2, we > thought > we would offer Windows AppVM support under a proprietary license. Even though > we > made a lot of progress on both the business and technical sides of this > endeavor, it ultimately failed. > > Luckily, we got a helping hand from the Open Technology Fund [03] (OTF), which > has supported [04] the project for the past two years. While not a large > sum of money in itself, it did help us a lot, especially with all the work > necessary to improve Qubes' user interface, documentation, and outreach to new > communities. Indeed, the (estimated) Qubes user base has grown [05] > significantly over that period. Thank you, OTF! > > But Qubes is more than just a nice UI: it's an entirely new, complex system -- > a system that aims to change the game of endpoint security. Consequently, it > requires expertise covering a wide spectrum of topics: from understanding > low-level aspects of hardware and firmware (and how they translate to the > security of a desktop system), to UI design, documentation writing, and > community outreach. Even if we consider only the "security research" aspect of > Qubes, this area alone easily scales beyond the capabilities of a single human > being. > > In order to continue to deliver on its promise of strong desktop security, > Qubes > must retain and expand its core team, and this requires substantial funding. > At > this point, we believe the only realistic way to achieve this is through > commercialization, supplemented by community funding. > > > Commercialization > ================= > > We're taking a different approach to commercialization this time. Building on > the success of the recent Qubes 3.2 release, which has been praised by users > for > its stability and overall usability, we will begin offering commercial > editions > (licenses) of Qubes OS to corporate customers. We believe that the maturity of > Qubes, combined with its powerful new management stack [06], makes it ripe > for adoption by any corporation with significant security needs. > > Commercial editions of Qubes OS will be customized to meet special corporate > requirements. For example, two features that might be particularly attractive > to > corporate customers are (1) "locking down" dom0 in order to separate the user > and administrator roles and (2) integrating our local management stack with a > corporation's remote management infrastructure. These are both examples of > features that our developers are capable of implementing now, on Qubes 3.2. > > We plan to partner with one to three corporate clients in order to run a pilot > program throughout the first half of 2017. After it has been successfully > completed, we'll then widen our offer to more corporate customers and, > ultimately, to small business customers. Our main constraint is the > scalability > required to cover each additional client. Hence, we plan to focus on larger > customers first. > > Let there be no misunderstanding: Qubes OS will always remain open source. We > anticipate that the majority of our commercialization efforts will involve the > creation of custom Salt configurations, and perhaps writing a few additional > apps and integration code. In the event that any corporate features require > reworking the core Qubes code, that new code will remain open source. > > We considered many other ways of attempting to commercialize Qubes before > arriving at this model. One possibility that some of our users have inquired > about is that we sell dedicated Qubes hardware (i.e. laptops). However, there > are a number of challenges here, both in terms of making the hardware > trustworthy enough to merit our "seal of approval", and from a business and > logistics perspective. For these reasons, we don't plan to pursue this option > in > the immediate future. > > > Community funding > ================= > > Unfortunately, the financial necessity of shifting our priorities to > commercial > clients will mean that we have less time to work on features that benefit the > wider, security-minded open source community, which has been our focus for the > past seven years. This deeply saddens us. (We all use Qubes on our personal > computers too!) However, the reality is that ITL can't afford to sustain the > open source development of Qubes for much longer. We're running out of time. > > In an attempt to keep the open source development of Qubes going, we've teamed > up with Open Collective [07], which makes it easier to donate to the Qubes > project. Now, in addition to our Bitcoin fund [08], we can also accept > donations via credit card. ITL will not benefit from of any of the money > donated > through Open Collective. Instead, the funds will be paid directly to > individual > developers who have been hired to work on the open source edition of Qubes. > With the help of our community, we hope eventually to build a nonprofit > organization that will ensure the long-term future of Qubes as an open source > operating system that is freely available to all -- one of the few operating > systems that places the security of its users above all else. > > If you are a user of Qubes and want to help us continue working on it, please > donate now [07]. Those who have contributed will be publicly recognized on > our > Open Collective [07] page (if they so choose). Organizations that support the > Qubes project will be publicly recognized on our Partners page [09] > (again, if they so choose). If you are interested in supporting Qubes with > significant resources, whether as an individual or on behalf of an > organization, > we ask that you please contact us directly [10], since donating through > Open Collective entails significant administrative overhead. > > Thank you for your continued support. Together, we can ensure that Qubes is > around to secure our digital lives for many years to come. > > --The Qubes team > > > [01] https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2010/04/07/introducing-qubes-os.html > [02] https://invisiblethingslab.com > [03] https://www.opentech.fund/ > [04] https://www.opentech.fund/project/qubes-os > [05] https://www.qubes-os.org/counter/ > [06] https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2015/12/14/mgmt-stack/ > [07] https://opencollective.com/qubes-os > [08] https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/07/13/qubes-distributed-fund/ > [09] https://www.qubes-os.org/partners/ > [10] <busin...@qubes-os.org> > > You can also view this announcement on the Web at: > https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/11/30/qubes-commercialization/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYP2b6AAoJENtN07w5UDAwJ4kQAMClOUh/vmxWr0Hb7ENgeBAq > xLQQrKuUBeK5yZ7+Jpeoqc/ni8VsZ8vwbXWayHLWHk1IMn22OMn/cd66T6tljt0x > UdcZ4Ng4nxl0j8sN0Ycw4iEx29LRwPs4m0EOPPEYRaqql+QNEPjs8mItE/vRtkd3 > KTudISYCflBwFB2SlVn8NHd8gNbaV/y8oy7gRLCpzEtf3rU4WAf2jKdRpGWx3RFx > uqYLJ/vfEOBs2SctsuNLzm+8eX7hZ6DOBQNBGgAtdLMnaWqBBA3uEjmwjGbNL2jm > BGVYUnPyKIgCcGHGuInCgRb8vatrV6Vesduw9IRbQHB2BOQT41pdhlbtbPUkOSu4 > HXn4j9/w3TXE4Qnvq5EeA3VTYM9cnf4COQ4XuaXNxUX9ojiuRgFqNxQ1vHw98rST > nsS//+9AoL2PQmElunWwhPe/srWDcODZ/iVDd2uafc0gEdNTYUHzDSQkhhd5GOEM > 2xe9zMfR8m+mpXTX5/ObVbsQ61EXUw6YYb9IH0vBvnG6QUSRe6xzXKVK8h/9JaHt > 5rhQxb+njEcovZ9cLadwA9IIZP4FJhYU0cvXpRbPSHueFRf7j4JfplClPEnL2vEC > NqG/lcgCKjA6tmk2x+CXU0rue35OwzjMUaWq8YZ0MmX0fc+/MFw121LpBu+0Ke0H > VOFj+L9DRea6g7k0OPtI > =3Y/D > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- This is a wonderful idea, there are about 20k Qubes users out there, if we al give you guys an equivalent of Windows license price you should be set for a millenium. Also, you forgot to post this to qubes-announce.
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