[alephnerd]

> It doesn't make sense to me why European countries might trust Indian subsidiaries of American companies

Because most European companies are paying lip service to EU sovereignty because of how tightly coupled they are to the US. Look at how the EU-China spat led to Nexperia China's de facto decoupling which shut down the EU automotive industry for a couple months. It's even worse with regards to American dependency.

> Why not get Independent Indian developers and the startup culture established around it

Because the dependency then comes from India. An "Atmanirbhar" EU means having the capacity for self-reliance almost entirely within the EU and without a dependency on non-EU states like India or Israel.

> It still doesn't effectively prevent the lock-in or worries in case of a geopolitical spat for EU in reality but only on the papers

European companies (like all companies) don't care about open-source once they become dominant in a segment - for example ERP and SAP and SUSE Linux, and industrial systems.

> To be honest, I am open to open sourcing much of my products (ideologically) but the problems I feel in open source is that its hard to even make a developer salary comparatively even in India

That's the reality of OSS. There's a reason most OSS contributors for critical projects are employed by the organizations that heavily utilize that project (eg. Python and Google, OCaml and Jane Street).

[Imustaskforhelp]

Yeah I thought about it for a few hours. I don't intend on creating lip service so I am gonna probably try to go with the more reasonable & economically sound approach of having an Indian company instead right now as an Indian. You are right instead of trying to build an EU first, I will instead try to build a privacy first and if the objectives still align, hopefully I have shown that if privacy first means to have an EU parent company or any other scenario, I am open/curious/willing to do for privacy for the average user.

https://news.ycombinator.com/view?id=46712907

I do believe that open source has its value. I love Open source and Privacy first is only possible with OSS-first. I have always been interested in how to monetize Open source (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558430) where the reason I found most people aren't interested or weren't (not sure if the mood changed now that the geopolitical wind has changed completely) but the reason I found was that people wanted OSS to almost be perfect but the rough corners in OSS were usually for the most part because of lack of funding.

So, I will probably try out some ways of funding OSS or at the very least have it be in a source available license. Proprietory just doesn't align with my idea of privacy first.

So yea hopefully it makes sense and we can all create or use privacy preserving services.

At the end of the day, I just hope that OSS can find ways to be funded. Much of what I want to do wouldn't be a problem or wouldn't even exist (As I got much of ideas that I want to implement because OSS wasn't funded and I had made that thread on HN) and honestly I hope that one day OSS can be funded the way it truly deserves.

have a nice day man!

[alephnerd]

No worries. And honestly, my opinion is make your product an open-core product, but as an Indian founder you have no choice but to use the Indian and Indian-American VC network. Most cybersecurity and open-core VCs are either Indian-Americans or Indian nationals, so it's easier to go that path instead of the European path where valuations and deal terms are very anti-founder in nature.

With the right metrics, you could end up at YC.