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Wouldn't "G Suite" be more descriptive than "Google"? Putting it in quotes kind of makes you think you're not referring to the search engine, but still... However that may be I love the mission, awesome work!
About the intro: how many more people (since Karl Marx) will rediscover the Pareto distribution and come to the conclusion that it should not be the case ... It's perfectly natural, so many systems follow Pareto. From Wikipedia: - The sizes of human settlements (few cities, many hamlets/villages) - File size distribution of Internet traffic which uses the TCP protocol (many smaller files, few larger ones) - Hard disk…
Nothing about wealth distribution is natural. With the help of the Pareto distributed political power that installed the system in the first place wealth is controlling itself.
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Hi, currently we absolutely do not plan to create a search engine: it requires too much resources for self hosting, I think we currently have great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo), and because an open source search engine will be tricked by all kind of nasty SEO Experts and it will be very hard to promote actually good Content. I dared the Google comparison thinking about it's productiv…
Hi, are you planning to implement email? I want to move my radio station away from google so badly, and if you can add email hosting, even just a pop server I can start pointing my new address to you. As it is, I want to sign up without having to use another service (which is going to be google, let's face it) and it would be great to have this all stored in one place.
Email is currently not planned, because it's not easy (IMAP, POP...) to do it correctly and securely.
But as many users seems interested, I may add it to the roadmap :)
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AWS is not acceptable choice if you want to stand to your values, see e.g.: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-... In france you have OVH - the invest heavily in solar energy and build datacenters with low energy consumption in mind. That might be a better choice (not working for them).
OP should talk to Octave Klaba who is very approachable and a big supporter of the FOSS spirit. maybe he can cut you a good price. I'd certainly try him (add him on LinkedIn and pitch it ... or oles at ovh.net )
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Storage is very cheap. I did not expect to reach Google's scale during the next month so currently we are bootstrapped and rely on some AWS credits :)
AWS is not acceptable choice if you want to stand to your values, see e.g.: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-... In france you have OVH - the invest heavily in solar energy and build datacenters with low energy consumption in mind. That might be a better choice (not working for them).
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After all the feedback I think a better comparison would be Apple. I used 'Google' because it's really clear for everyone how this company is shaping the world (for the better or the worst).
best comparison would be Nextcloud.
I've dared the Google comparison, because in my point of view, It's THE company who is changing the world.
Wouldn't "G Suite" be more descriptive than "Google"? Putting it in quotes kind of makes you think you're not referring to the search engine, but still... However that may be I love the mission, awesome work!
Then the article would not have gotten as much attention or clicks. Clickbait for a reason
Maybe the article is not crystal-clear but the goal is clearly to become the next Google. Not to be Google :)
I like your enthusiasm but I am afraid you are overambitious. For me, it sounds a bit like GSuite alrernative hosted on Google Cloud. It doesn't make sense to me. What is the advantage of it being opensource when it is hosted by you. I have been hosting my own NextCloud instance on a bare metal server for years, email (exim, dovecot, roundcube), dns (bind) and it all replaced gsuite for me, they are awesome libre and…
The plan is as follows: Code is free and open source, but 98% don't have the time/the knowledge/the will to self host and will happily be us to manage and secure their data (like DropBox).
Open source is not much a marketing argument, but in my opinion the only way to build a sustainable future.