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#+TITLE: HN: Zoom Acquires Keybase

- source :: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430
- tags :: [[id:c318da5d-84db-460f-807a-597a48cbab02][Hacker News]] [[id:1ff58dca-47a0-4c7d-a9f0-c75dd547e644][Aquisitions]] [[id:ca51300c-53fd-4c1a-81c2-8a1d2e473165][Keybase]]

* Notes
** Quote from asdkhadsj - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102820

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Keybase seems like something that should be small, isolated, FOSS, supported by a
foundation, etc. They could have built a business _around_ Keybase I'd imagine,
but all they managed to do with this is invalidate Keybase and make people like
myself, who feared their business motivations, feel vindicated for being
paranoid.

I'll never blame anyone for wanting to make money, to make a business, etc. But
if you make a product that walks talks and acts like a FOSS project, but keep it
to center your business around... I'll always be longing for a real, true FOSS
replacement.

In this case a good looking FOSS alternative came out a few months ago iirc.
Though for the life of me I can't remember the name.

edit: https://keys.pub/ - though I will still miss KBFS
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Very interesting point about being vindicated for paranoia about their business
model.

The follow up comment though makes an excellent point about the [[id:70bf9c97-c8e3-4c26-8de1-3ef1f8db0cfa][Broken Window
Fallacy]] as it related to developing open source software.

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Unlike proprietary software, open source software doesn't depend on the broken
window fallacy. As a result, it's really hard to make open source profitable.
There's lots of different avenues to get there, and I don't like to fault
someone for their efforts if the bulk of their work goes towards improving open
source software, as I think Keybase did.
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#+BEGIN_QUOTE @coldpie on [[id:70bf9c97-c8e3-4c26-8de1-3ef1f8db0cfa][Broken Window Fallacy]] in software
The idea is that each proprietary project is wasting effort implementing their
own clones of everyone else's software.
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