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by phoronixrly 146 days ago
Also, Tangled is VC-funded. I cannot find information about Radicle, but considering the authorship is not advertised on their website, and that P2P is not easily monetizable, I would bet it is not VC-funded.

All in all, seems like an awesome project and instantly more trustworthy and rugpull-resistant than Tangled.
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0x3o3 146 days ago
yeah the Radicle protocol is fully owned and governed by a Swiss non-profit.
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phoronixrly 146 days ago
As per https://radicle.xyz/history

> The Radicle Foundation is established. A Swiss non-profit that oversees the development of the project.

Thank you!

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creativeair2049 146 days ago
> instantly more trustworthy

quite ironic, radicle seems to have raised 7m$ from "radworks", some sort of crypto foundation.

that being said, why is it being not monetizable a good thing? their website says radicle has been in development for 4 years already. without more money in the bank, how would they continue to build the thing?

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lorenzleutgeb 146 days ago
Radicle is a free software project, not a company or commercial product. Many other open source projects are also not monetizable in the narrow sense, and still manage to attract enough contributors and funding to flourish. Sometimes these projects even get adopted so widespread that multiple companies build consortia/foundations to fund the development, even if there is no direct revenue stream from that.

As long as someone is willing to fund the development of Radicle, the developers just will have a stronger incentive to work on it. Without any more funding, of course it will join the (very large) club of less well funded free software projects.

If enough people join and contribute now, and then some companies make the switch, it might well be feasible to pay a small team to continue working on it, financed by donations.

Just don't think about it as a commercial product, only because someone decided to use their money towards its development. If you don't like that it's not a company, then that's okay. I am just trying to give another perspective.

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makeworld 145 days ago
Source for it being VC funded?
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phoronixrly 143 days ago
Crunchbase search on Tangled Labs Oy -- the company behind tangled as per Tangled's website.
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