![]() We need Federated open source protocols, not black box VC pump & dump horse****. Chris Coyne literally said they are happy to never sell another company and would never do anything unethical, like, hmm, selling their user base and private information to a company which is effectively a proxy for a foreign government, after a user expressed this specific concern to him.ĭon't worry guys - the engineers are intrinsically motivated! And you call me the puritan. Not to mention the false pretenses under which people were lured to Keybase. Undoing wrongheaded precedents takes something drastic, like, i dunno, acquiring an entire new team of engineers to solve pitfalls of your legacy systems who clearly have intrinsically motivated experience in the domain of secure communications usually they simply hire bureausticrats to apologize for their lowest common denominator cruft for the rest of time while they pile on top of it and never look back. ![]() i've rarely heard of such a radical thing in an org with software. It sounds like Zoom is allowing new entrants to come in and renegotiate the arch of their video service after hearing external criticisms of it. You're incredibly naive about how acquisitions work and how this is likely to pan out if you disagree. It is a slam dunk win for Zoom (and Zoom investors) but quite obviously utterly terrible for Keybase users, and the future of Keybase products and open source initiatives. But I would frame it differently: Keybase had security and an ecosystem, Zoom had video chat. Zoom had no ecosystem and no security, Keybase had no video I agree it made sense for Zoom.
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