Open-Source Movement

Introduction

The open-source ThreeFold Grid is an open-source movement. TFTech and TFCloud are two sponsors of this project.

The Company who is behind this e-book
TFCloud is called ThreeFold DMCC and is based in Dubai.
TFCloud delivers commercial hosting solutions on top of the grid.
TFCloud products will go life Q1 2024 (beta already in dec 2023)
TFCloud best effort maintains the threefold forum and delivers best effort support for the TFGrid as well.
TFCloud is not a crypto company and has no interest to support speculation or any other financial game around the tokens, TFCloud is all about leveraging a distributed network of compute & storage capacity for its own solutions.

develops most of the opensource software as used in the TFGrid
contributes all this code
support is best effort
TFTech sells commercial licenses to help companies, governments and enterprises to make most out of the code.
TFTech also does OEM deals with partners for specific usecases.

TFCloud and TFGrid are motivated to let the TFGrid infrastructure run independenty from TFTech and TFCloud by mid to end 2024.
Run Independently means
- less than 20% of the validators or other tech components should be managed by TFTech or TFCloud
- less than 20% of the guardians are linked to TFTech or TFCloud
- guardians will have to decide on upgrades of 3nodes linked to their regional internet
Anyone community in the world can run their own regional Internet without any help of TFCloud/TFTech.
This basically means if TFTech and TFCloud would no longer exist and community has interest to keep on funding the project, then the project can continue by itself.

In other words, ThreeFold Grid, once a baby, became an adult and moved out of the house.