I am trying to move away from US tech for ages actually and last year i transitioned from Google photos to ente. I am very happy with them but now i was checking if they are based in US.
I can’t seem to figure it out. They have their corporate postal addresses in US, but also addresses in Netherlands and Finland. Also it seems that they are based thought the world and do remote work so I ma at a dilemma between accepting them as they are or having to find an alternative to them
Edit: update from Ente, and a blog post they made when they registered in the US. TLDR: they actually wanted to register in EU, but as they are fully remotely operated, EU was not able to allow for a company without a physical presence to register in any of its countries (besides Estonia). There were workarounds and hacks, to achieve this but they were not willing to use “hacks”. It was more straight forward creating a Delaware C corporation instead. More info here https://ente.io/blog/reflections-on-trusting-trust/
I don’t feel like the purpose of this movement is to punish FOSS software providers simply because they are based in the US.
Ente is a FOSS provider that does good work as far as I can tell. In my opinion, they should be supported and grouped together with the “good guys” category (as of today and right now, excluding any future bootlicking tweets their CEO may post).
There’s an argument that this group is truly focused only one European alternatives, but I believe in the absence of one (and personally when there only bad/significantly-worse alternatives) some non-EU companies should be listed and supported.
