info_tfgrid/collections/abundance_internet/decentralization/opensource_movement.md
2024-04-24 13:43:10 +02:00

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Open-Source Movement

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.