antran22

No I agree with your point and was addressing other blind anti-Google sentiment. While middle-finger to Google for their inhumane ad-based business model, we have to admit that they are doing what they are expected to do in this exact scenario.

It all boil down to trust. He gave it to somebody he trust, who also have their stake in PayPal. If you couldn't even trust the General Legal Counsel of your company, a secrets key might not be the thing you needed to worry about then.

The fact remains is web platforms are in every way at the mercy of Google to be reachable to their clients. Chrome (which your clients most definitely will be using) has full power to decide if your website is malicious, but you don't even know the criteria of their decision, and so, have little-to-no knowledge on how to adjust your website to pass the criteria again. I have seen web development platforms being blocked out of use for weeks; because some scammers use their service to build their scamming site, causing the whole domain to be marked as spam.

However there are still two ways to look at this: The defeatists will say that the open web of the old is now fubar, there is no point in building websites now because whatever you do you are at the whim of BigTechs to dictate the term of your website.

I try to keep more optimistic viewpoint. We can see that this is more or less the standard behavior of any antivirus measure, and your browser/antivirus service is tasked with an impossible job of deciding if the data it renders is benign or malicious, and whatever heuristic/criteria it comes up with is going to be leaky and cannot cover every edge cases. Platform should structure their system so that your components are localized, so it will be less susceptible to those kind of outage. Of the top of my mind, what step you should be taking: - Separation of domains between for your own assets/web and what the clients upload. A CDN, online bucket may help you here. - If you are doing a website builder, try to enforce the client to bring their domain to publish. Your default domain should be for evaluation purpose only.

It's hard world out there, sympathy to OP for being in this shitty position.

Vietnamese here. Crypto best use case here is usually fast and small international transaction (beside speculation etc.)

For daily commerce, we have instant, free, cross-bank transfer. All popular banks provide e-banking apps with fast transaction to all the other popular banks. Polymer money are still used for very small amount (and oddly, buying gasoline), but I have been going 90% cashless for a year.

All Blockchain related stuffs are still more or less unsupported by law, not recognizable as assets. So if you get crypto-scammed in Vietnam, which happens a lot, you are more or less fucked

I would say that you should build the MVP, as a side project only. Take care that what you do won't use any company resource to build. Don't quit until you are sure this will work, or you are going to burn a very well paid bridge.

Unless you are building a deep-tech product (blockchain, AI stuffs), try to put together your project using pre-made parts. I'd recommend taking a look at Low-code/No-code tool. When you have validated your product against the market, you can then quit and focus full time on the project.

I have personally help a few startup firms build their MVP using those pre-made parts to validate their idea. Some of them works, but for those failed, they didn't waste too much time and money on it. Those ideas that work, they quickly turned to a full-fledged solution and ditched the MVP.

About the legal aspect, I think that unless the contract really specifies the IP laws, I think it's gonna be alright. Maybe consult a Lawyer about it?

The first one I searched for: https://bAIble.com/bible.html?book=Ezekiel&chapter=25&verse=...

The branching in PlanetScale is for schemas (your team branch out to develop your database, and merge the branch when new development has completed)

Has anyone tried installing Linux on a Chromebook machine? I see that there are a few Chromebook tablet, but I am not sure that the support for this setup would be prevalent now.

Also to refute your point here, I would say that there's not really that many project maintainers that just totally go rogue and kill the whole project. An event that was most similar to what I describe here is the Freenode boogaloo, and you can see that users started to move to Libera.Chat. If you advertise your product as community oriented and do stuff that your community despises then you basically have just shoot yourself in the foot.

I think we are straying from the point of FOSS once we talk about money. If I start a new open source project, it will be my gift to the world, and I expect to gain nothing from it financially. If Google make a billion bucks from my project then I'm sure some other dudes running a startup is using it too, and if my project helps them then I'm happy. If my help is not appreciated, lotsa luck gentlemen ;)

As I have made my point before, if all I want is money I would spend my time working a paying job. But money is not everything isn't it?

The point of open source is people can use it freely. A better project, which hits the right spots will naturally attract financial and technical support, both from the companies and the community. It is really just a free market, where the best projects survive.

The thing is, if the new project maintainers go against the community, but the community really need to use it, the community will just fork out a new path and move on. If the project is really open source.

There also is a similar story of such in my country. There was this guy who wrote a short and it was included in the national textbook. The guy's son (or grandson, I can't recount exactly) was assigned to analyse that short and the author, out of curiosity, made the kid submitted his analysis instead. The teacher even went as far as commenting "You don't understand the author's intention at all". Which really make us think how absurd literary education can really go.