| My goal was to understand and explain the quick down votes, but I read enough to determine that it didn't seem useful to me. I followed the first two links in your original comment, so didn't see these other pages, and didn't want to watch a 7 minute video. I understand what social applications are, what operating systems are, and what web frameworks are. I can't see anything resembling an operating system on any Qbix page I've looked at, but I do see things like a web framework, which is what you call it in some places. I've now watched the video - I think you should put Qbix's capabilities of identity sharing and friends but not websites knowing your private info in text form up the top, as not many people will watch a 7 minute video to figure out what something is (since that feature seems kind of neat and unusual). I think the GitHub page should mention that the company is also named Qbix, as that's kind of confusing. Some other things I interpreted as warning signs on the GitHub page are: - The overly-ambitious goals like "We aim to do to Facebook and Google what the Web did to AOL and CompuServe" - almost no one stating goals like that will achieve them. - The screenshots are mostly American politics, which is to many people the worst aspect of social media, so quite off-putting. - "Build once, run everywhere". Developers have heard that before, and it's never been correct before, so seems dubious now. - In several places there seems to be a lack of distinction between the open source software platform, and the online platform Qbix runs (controls?), e.g. "If your app turns out to be very useful, we can discuss giving it a head start by making it available to everyone on our platform.". I can't tell if it's actually the case, but that makes you sound like gatekeepers in some sense; isn't an app I make already available to everyone? Those are good examples of open source projects controlled by a single company, but people using them are running the software on their own systems, isolated from the company. Qbix the software sounds more entangled with Qbix the company. I've now read a whole lot more, but I still don't really understand. I found some broken links on https://qbix.com/platform, on the left "For Developers" etc. don't do anything when I click. |