Tough love: 1. introduction

[benjaminbollen]

Hi! I’m Ben. Some may know me as an ex-developer at MaidSafe. I dropped out of my PhD in theoretical physics in the summer of 2014, because I believe it is important to stand for the things we believe in and I believe in Project SAFE and the SAFE network and the values of default privacy for all, we stand for.

I joined MaidSafe as a developer from august 2014 (after the crowdsale) till november 2015 (after the Rust 3 release).

For the investment our community made in these values to succeed under the leadership of MaidSafe we need to start asking the hard questions and no longer accept handwaving arguments made by David Irvine as a replacement for sensible logic.

I believe I can state I spent a year and a half working on the ground - I literally moved to Troon, Scotland - to advance the formalisation of the logic behind the network proposal.

As I left I clearly stated to David that the extra MAID should be burnt, and that this for me was the line in the sand: if he decides to sell them, you are legally stealing well over 1 million Pounds (at current valuation) from the community.

As of this week, David has announced (as a single sided decision) to sell them, because MaidSafe, the company, very likely has run out of money and for it to survive this is one of the few options left.

The fight for the internet is fought by many people, and many organisations on this planet, and MaidSafe and the SAFE network are two of them. This fight is too important though for me not to stand up and for the benefit of the SAFE network community start asking the hard questions.

So let’s kick this off and have honest, no-nonsense technical discussions about the stack, the formal logic behind the implementation and open discussions on what we can achieve as intermediate results to actually progress the project and evaluate whether MaidSafe and David are the people capable of delivering what has been promised.

I encourage every community member to engage in these discussions and to learn and ask the questions; I have a fulltime engagement myself so I need all your help in pushing the SAFE network forward.

Most kind regards
Ben

[Melvin]

Is there actually a (new) question/statement here? Always good to discuss these kind of decisions but much has been discussed already in the days after the announcement.

[anon26713768]

Agreed there is already a thread for this discussion.

[Chuki]

Clearly the OP has made this statements in order to win momentum and make a little bit of noise. He has the right to give the opinion regarding whatever topic, but ,in my opinion, not opening a new thread when we have already one working great. For that reason I suggest some moderator, for instance, you Melvin to move this post to the right thread.
Thanks

[benjaminbollen]

Yes, I intend over the course of weeks to start several threads on different content related topics under this “Tough love” title. Every topic will deserve it’s own thread because the time has ended to accept technical answers from MaidSafe without a solid reasoned answer, and to be frank, this community has not been critical enough up to this point.

[davidpbrown]

Criticism without reasoning is of no value. OP just looks like sour grapes.

[cl0ck3d]

Why did you leave developing MAIDsafe?

And Dirvine did not make a “single handed decision to use the extra coins” all that was said was that they were leaning in that direction.

[anon40790172]

The discussion about the future of Maidsafe already has a topic. Gonna close this one and move the OP.