Improve Proton's Open source development
Proton has two great assets, the privacy respecting side and its Open source orientation.
However, some apps/services still aren't published openly (Calendar app for Android/iOS, amongst others).
So :
1. Make all apps and services open source
2. Activate issues on repositories
3. Invite community to actively participate in the development of the ecosystem
=> Proton apps become more reliable, with faster feature development and availability and it allows for greater transparency and sense of trust from the customers and community.
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A.Fr
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Could Proton improve trust in their privacy and encryption by making more of their software open and moving toward an MIT-style licensing model. Best practice would be to develop the software similarly to GrapheneOS: publish the source code and all build-environment settings so anyone can build the project from source and verify the output against the signed binaries.
If more and more of their software were under an MIT (or similar) license, anyone could build the end-user part of the software. And because most encryption and all decryption / private key handling happens in the end-user software, it would be difficult to force Proton to implement any backdoor in its services.
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Thierry Delafontaine
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I think opening up on GitHub to the developer community would heavily improve Protons products and strengthen the technical user base/community around Proton products.
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Kazimierz Krauze
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Yes, yes, yes! Do that! The community will be happy to do so.
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Thomas
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Additionally, Proton now has the resources to contribute to the open source projects that it depends on. Even $10/mo makes a difference since many projects receive $0. However, proton can surely afford more.