Comment by leakycap

> just pay Gmail, don’t spend the required amount of time to self host

Are you seriously suggesting a business put their contacts in the hands of Google, who has reportedly been totally capricious with account actions in the past and is notoriously difficult to contact when problems arise?

> and open-source is stuck at being hobbyists if there is no corporate sponsorship

Corpo sponsorship required for success? I guess I better tell all the open-source projects being used by millions that they're just hobbyists now.

> The problem [...] everything digital [...] Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?

I have heard of analog world nostalgia, but you refer to the pre-digital age as if you didn't live through it. It's easier to locate someone today than ever before.