It is really encouraging to see this fork gain traction after the great Simple Mobile Tools Android apps were sold to an adware company and stopped being open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229. Thanks for all the work Naveen Singh (https://github.com/naveensingh / @naveenyc) and others to make the fork already this popular. I really hope there will be enough funds for Naveen to start working full-time on Fossify. I've setup a recurring donation and hope others who can will contribute as well (https://github.com/FossifyOrg#support-fossify-heart).
As noted in the blog post of this new release, K-9 is looking for more funding. Earlier this year a call for donations (https://k9mail.app/2021/02/14/K-9-Mail-is-looking-for-fundin...) was quite successful, but the goal of $1000 per week is not yet met. It is currently at $770, so let's get it to $1000!
But I can really recommend creating a Liberapay acccount (it accepts PayPal) as many FOSS projects use it to receive donations and Liberapay is open source itself and run by a non-profit. Let's get K-9 to its goal of $1000: https://liberapay.com/k9mail
You can enable the 'Unstable updates' option in F-Droid's settings to receive notifications for new beta versions to avoid having to check manually. The downside is that you'll receive these updates for all apps, so be sure to check if a new version is a beta version for apps that you want to keep on stable versions.
Given the amount of backlash this whole debacle has in the community, couldn't a crowdfunding to cover legal costs be successful enough to start a lawsuit? AFAIK funding is the main reason why a lawsuit isn't happening (https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461).
Everyone should still move to Libera, but a lawsuit might bring some justice.
Of course, Amazon is a US company, so with the proper subpoena from a US court AWS technicians will [have to] deliver images of the virtual servers and/or remove them and/or modify them or whatever else is requested, without the right to inform the customer if the subpoena says so.
Wouldn't the system see a raid's confiscation of a server as just a down machine and do the normal thing to bring up a new server to handle the load correctly? "Okay boys, now go get that server. Wait, now that one, now that one"
Thank you so much for posting this; I hadn't heard of this documentary before, and the name Aaron Swartz was just something that sounded vaguely familiar. Just watched it, and I'm shocked and saddened.
Interesting. I wonder what design they'll come up with. The thread links to a tweet from Moxie from a few months ago, which (along with some other tweets in the thread) is interesting to think about:
In theory they could keep using the native contact list and just stuff Signal usernames in there; iOS does have the APIs to do that, and I'd assume Android too.
