I will actually look into this because it will pretty dramatically impact how I regard Viscosity/SparkLabs. Side note: I was unaware that SparkLabs has commits back to OpenVPN. I also made ~-$2000 (that's right, negative) while running OSTIF and contributing thousands of hours of work for free.įurthermore, our pay policies are also publicly disclosed:Īnd we report on our performance vs our targets:īut sure, play the administrative waste card on a charity that is operating at 91.4% efficiency (among the best in the world). You can literally see where every dollar is spent. So calling it an unsolicited request for money is not an honest assessment of the situation.Ī significant undisclosed portion of our funds goes to administrative costs? Are you kidding? We post our books online. If you reread the emails that we sent you (we sent two because you didn't respond), we had a lot of non-monetary options to contribute. That's an interesting take on your position. We wish OSTIF all the best, they have worthy goals, and I don't want to dissuade others from donating to them, but I feel it is important to address their comments.īut at the end of the day that's all fairly off-topic :) Please do check out Viscosity and see if you like it, and please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or concerns! We believe it would be unethical for us to give funds to a third-party company without knowing where those funds are going, and knowing a large portion is going to administrative waste. In the case of open-source projects that Viscosity uses we're committed to directly supporting these projects where possible. It's not something we'd normally discuss publicly, however we chose not to support them financially as a significant undisclosed (edit: disclosed below) portion of donations goes to "administrative costs" and pay "bonuses".Īs a small indie company we're extremely grateful to every single user for supporting Viscosity, and so we have an obligation to spend the money they so generously give us on efforts that will support Viscosity and its community. On a more sombre note, I'm saddened that OSTIF feel the need to disparage Viscosity because we opted not to respond to an unsolicited email request for money. For those interested you can search for commits and discussion under our developers names (which can be found on our company page).
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We have contributed to open-source projects and initiatives we feel are beneficial, both via source code contributions (which includes OpenVPN), financial donations (which includes the TunTap project), and advice/discussion (a large assortment).
It is also incorrect to say that we "do not contribute back to the project through commits nor financially". For those interested please see the comment linked above for more information. Indeed, any Viscosity user is welcome to email us for GPL covered source-code, as evidenced in Viscosity's EULA. As anyone familiar with the open-source OpenVPN project knows, OpenVPN is licensed under the GPL, which mandates that original source code, and the source code for any changes, be made available. It is incorrect to say that "closed source fork of an open source project". Piggy-backing off my comment above, I've included some points below to help address some misleading comments in this thread: I also recommend checking out an old Reddit comment of mine which answers a similar question and goes into some more depth regarding Viscosity, OpenVPN, and open-source: I'm sure you'll love Viscosity, as we've poured heaps of effort into making Viscosity as powerful and trouble-free as possible, but again, I encourage you to give it a try for yourself. Viscosity can be freely used for 30-days, at which point you can register it if you like it or simply delete it if you prefer something else. I encourage anyone reading this looking for an OpenVPN client to try out all of the above clients. Popular OpenVPN clients include the OpenVPN Community GUI (Windows only, and considered the only "official" client), Tunnelblick (Mac only), the OpenVPN Connect Client (Mac & Win), and of course Viscosity (Mac & Win). Because of this a comparison of "Viscosity or OpenVPN" doesn't exactly make sense :) For those unfamiliar, by "OpenVPN" in this case the OP means another VPN client that supports OpenVPN. OpenVPN is a type of VPN protocol, which Viscosity supports. Thought I'd jump in and try and offer some insight!
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