Nah, we know. We also weren't sure if we want to open source our stuff, as it's mostly just a ploy to milk individual developers for IP, without having to pay them anything.

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OSS works when there is mutual benefit to all involved stakeholders.

the main benefit of open source is free testing

many corporate backed OSS projects fall into two categories: products, or “standards”

products almost always get rugged with BSL or some other license anyway, example MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Hashicorp stuff

“standards” are one company having a problem, solving it, and open sourcing it in the hopes they get other adopters

this then gives them free contributions

examples are FDB, a bunch of the forks like OpenTofu/OpenBao, Kubernetes, Envoy, etc.

LOL I'm the only tester on here, really. But I'm free, yeah. 😅

on the topic of signers what if you had a signer that was a security key

Is you hardware signer done?

In progress