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!