@0xabad1dea @cadey oh..... so I do not need to write the Operating System.... that makes things a bit easier…..

The largest issue that overrules all technical work is marketing: you need users, you need the first several thousands to not pay, but you do not need to have ads so that they learn about it and have those ads everywhere so that people know that your tool exists.

PS: For those that do consider doing one with e2ee: MLS (RFC 9750) now exists

@EUCommission Thanks to the EU, not only Europe has it, many countries around the world have 112: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_number) -- all of Continental Europe, big chunks of Africa, India, and many Pacific islands! And many countries (eg China, US) redirect with a voice message to their local equivalent.

Quite a great success for those who battled to get it everywhere! Thanks folks from 1976 at CEPT!

@david_chisnall The entity that improves the code base the most, and has the better tool, the better support, will be the surviving fork. Especially if "competing" forks are going to take patches forward/back. If one does not care about what the other fork adds, then one is good, but if all users leave..... becomes a question of why one is working on code, who it is for, which might be maybe just yourself; but then also why one opens it.

And open source, the worst part likely is the users