If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am afraid that now I will have to change where I save my notes. What do you guys think about this?
To be honest, I was really happy about the news. I love Standard Notes, and I think that Proton acquiring it bodes well for its longevity. Proton is so big now that it is difficult seeing them being bought by someone else. You cannot say the same about Standard Notes. And I would have died if one day we would have seen a “Skiff situation” with Standard Notes. With Proton it is different. It is s company that I really trust.
But I do 100% get the not all eggs in one basket point. In my personal case, I have opted not to use Proton’s VPN or Password Manager services. Specifically not to put all my eggs in the same basket.
I couldnt easily find financial data for Proton AG, but they are still tiny. 100m proton mail users vs 1.5b gmail users. If one of the really big players wanted to, I am sure they could make proton an extremely tempting offer.
Dont forget that 20 years ago, Google/GMail was well trusted as well, once Proton reaches a critical mass with sufficient lock-in, there is nothing stopping them going down the same path Google did.
You are right. There are no certainties in this matter. Proton’s values look and sound good. But things can change and big enough offers can be hard to resist. My revised point is then that since we now know that Standard Notes were open to being acquired, I am happy that it was by Proton and not somebody else 😉
I’m actually shocked at how big that userbase is for Proton. Your point stands that they’re comparatively small against the truly big players, but I would have guessed a few million proton users at most.
That includes free users, in case that wasn’t apparent
I figured as much, but it’s still a lot higher than I would have guessed.