19 Feb
2021
19 Feb
'21
10:08 p.m.
The non-profit option looks really appealing, but at the same time problems like legal
protection and funds management could make it an inappropriate solution for TDE. I'm
no expert, but legal protection seems important enough. We must be able to defend TDE
accordingly against any legal issues that might arise, and it might be best to leave it to
an experienced company.
SFConservancy looks like a good option. Even though they adhere to US laws, the fact that
many popular and respectable FOSS projects trust them is something to be considered. Dyne,
on the other hand, seems quite unpopular, possibly exactly due to transparency issues and
this annoying "we made it" attitude.
If there are concerns that a corporation that uses TDE
might try to claim
legal damages from TDE if something goes wrong, perhaps a helpful precaution
could be to put a "NO WARRANTY" message like the one above, somewhere on the
TDM login dialogue. And if a user logs in to TDE using e.g. KDM instead of
TDM, perhaps a similar message could appear in a message box in front of all
other windows when the user has just logged in, with an OK button to dismiss
the message, and a checkbox to be checked for "Acknowledge and don't display
again".
The "No Warranty" idea looks reasonable enough, even though no other DE is doing
this AFAIK. Actually, this notice could also be put on the first page of KPersonalizer, as
this is what the user sees when they first log on.
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Mavridis Philippe