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+# Open-Source Movement
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+## Introduction
+
+The open-source *TFGRID is an open-source movement. TFTech and TFCloud are two sponsors of this project.
+
+## TFCloud
+
+- The Company who is behind this e-book
+- TFCloud is called ThreeFold DMCC and is based in Dubai.
+- TFCloud delivers commercial hosting solutions on top of the grid.
+- TFCloud products will go life Q1 2024 (beta already in dec 2023)
+- TFCloud best effort maintains the threefold forum and delivers best effort support for the TFGrid as well.
+- TFCloud is not a crypto company and has no interest to support speculation or any other financial game around the tokens, TFCloud is all about leveraging a distributed network of compute & storage capacity for its own solutions.
+
+## TFTech
+
+- develops most of the opensource software as used in the TFGrid
+- contributes all this code 
+- support is best effort
+- TFTech sells commercial licenses to help companies, governments and enterprises to make most out of the code.
+- TFTech also does OEM deals with partners for specific usecases.
+
+## Promise to 100% Independence of TFGrid
+
+- TFCloud and TFGrid are motivated to let the TFGrid infrastructure run independenty from TFTech and TFCloud by mid to end 2024.
+- Run Independently means
+   - less than 20% of the validators or other tech components should be managed by TFTech or TFCloud
+   - less than 20% of the guardians are linked to  TFTech or TFCloud
+   - guardians will have to decide on upgrades of 3nodes linked to their regional internet
+- Anyone community in the world can run their own regional Internet without any help of TFCloud/TFTech.
+- This basically means if TFTech and TFCloud would no longer exist and community has interest to keep on funding the project, then the project can continue by itself. 
+
+> **In other words, *TFGRID, once a baby, became an adult and moved out of the house.**