I trust qora 100%. He's not a person who might let us down, that's for sure.
I also totally understand people who would like to keep the source closed. If you are one of initial investors, you basically have nothing to lose. Maybe just a couple of BTC invested in Qora.
But think about people who want to build something on top of Qora. Like encrypted messenger or something like that. It's months of hard work, probably some expenses also. Not many people would feel comfortable to start a new venture if the whole thing depends on one person. Even if they trust him. It's just not right and too risky. It was totally fine to keep the source closed from everybody, but I think that now we're getting to the point when we need a 1 or 2 more people to have it.
If QORA community is looking for 2nd guy who will keep source code for QORA as backup in case if QORA himself disappears then trust me I am that guy.
Here are reasons of why you should trust me:
1) I don't have very close friends in real life, so there is no way I would share with someone I know well and that person would share with someone he knows well and so on.
2) I don't have any friends on bitcoin forums, no worries here.
3) I am not one of initial investors, so I will be very interested to potentially earn QORAs and the following will explain how.
4) QORA community will determine number of QORAs that they are willing to transfer to my designated QORA account in event of emergency (QORA disappears) so that I will share the code with designated recipient or post it as open source.
5) That number of QORAs should be big enough to kill my potential interest to accept bribe from KORA & others. I suggest 200 million QORAs.
6) That number should be big enough to kill possibility of one large QORA holder to send it to me and outvote everybody else.
7) That number should be small enough to allow community to collect it.
8 ) I promise to disclose it to community designated recipient only if both of the following events happen:
a) community approves disclosure by vote on QORA network that will be held for at least 1 month.
b) I receive pre-determined number of QORAs to my account.
9) Qora will send me source code once in a while or for every release and I will compile and publish executable together with SHA256 hashes of executable and source code on both QORA and NXT blockchain.
10) Qora can publish his hashes too so that people know that I actually have the source code.
11) Each time I publish community will send me 200,000 QORAs for doing that work. If I don't receive 200K for one release, I will not publish only that release, but QORA will still publish and other terms still remain in effect.
12) I am developer myself, so I can inspect Java source code and can potentially answer some community approved questions if any (for some fee depending on difficulty). I can also verify (for additional 300,000 QORAs fee) if it's obfuscated or not and if it's obfuscated then let community know of the problem.
13) QORA source code does not have to be released to public any time soon with that good backup so clones won't exist.
14) One new exciting possibility will open with that kind of backup - both me and QORA could run same obfuscator for Java code and publish only obfuscated Java executable thus eliminating decompilation and clones. Parts of Java code could also be translated into C++ to have stronger protection from clones.
15) From time to time I could also inspect source code for malicious behavior (for additional million QORAs fee) and report to the community. Having each release and inspecting only differences will make it easier to inspect and may significantly lower the fee depending on size and complexity of source code and changes.
15) Other investors will have stronger insentive to invest in QORA knowing that it's backed up and not cloneable at the same time. This should pump price up.
16) When I have more spare time and with enough insentive I may potentially become QORA developer improving it together with QORA or after QORA stops to exist like BCNext.
