You make a very good point, and I see where you are coming from.
I personally have a hard time trusting other products with my data too. That's why I'm trying to be as transparent as possible with DarwinMail.
If I were to make the product open source, would you consider using it then?
Hopefully you can still make a living. I suspect "open source + commercially hosted" is a good model for something like this?
In fact I suggested he look into the open source + hosted business model. Ghost seems to be doing alright with it:
> It seems like it would be easier for you to just not evaluate new mail clients.
There are plenty of OSS mail clients. I was just looking at RoundCube the other day. It's actually pretty slick as far as traditional email clients go.
That means that you would not consider using by it unless you could use it for free, presuming you wouldn’t qualify for a commercial license. I only summarized what you said.
Thank you for understanding :)
I thank you :) I love receiving new 'outside of the box' ideas that will increase DarwinMail's appeal :)
Thank you so much. I'm so happy that you understand as it can be difficult for a creator to explain such things :)
I really appreciate it!
That's why I mentioned the OSS + hosted version. It would allow to be more open while still making money on the hosted version. Those who are very concerned about privacy can self-host, and those who think self-hosting is too hard (that's many people) can pay to use your hosted version.
See Ghost as a success story that works that way:
That's quite an interesting concept! It would alleviate users concerns :)
I like it!
Ghost has done very well in recent years. I will read up on this.
Open-sourcing and authenticating the client code would resolve this issue for me.
I will think about it :)