For those who are/were considering Infomaniak and are wondering about the quality of service: I use it for DNS only. Their UI is less than ideal but not bad once you get used to it. The service is solid, never had any issues.
I work at Inter IKEA, which is actually a franchisor - the structure is a family run foundation sitting at the top, below the group that owns the concept and value chain, then the retailer licence to hold a franchise (https://www.inter.ikea.com/en/this-is-inter-ikea-group/the-i...)
I don’t think that's what Infomaniak is after. Not even in the same ballpark.
not sure how being directly responsible for illegal wood-cutting in eastern europe, worsening quality, higher prices, low wages and treating your employees like cattle is woke. were you bothered by them pink-washing themselves with rainbow flags?
in other words i'm always surprised about people choosing "wokeness" as criticism when there are things way more impactful and worse to actually care about.
> pay very little tax [...] rational and admirable
okay. i get the rational part, from a business perspective. still dislike that it's being done, but who am i. admirable? are you libertarian by any chance? (genuine question, i can't imagine how one can find tax evasion admirable if they're not wealthy or businessman-first-human-second themselves.)
This reads quite naive; if you want a legal entity to be ideologically driven then it needs to be controlled by a small number of ideologues. Committee-like structures tend to mean revert to a reasonable position that bows to financial pressure. Structures guarantee longevity, but the ideological underpinnings of the that longevity tend to stray.
One of the major lessons of political history is it isn't possible to structure your way out of a situation where there is an incentive to do something. If Boris Sienenthaler has proven to have good judgement it is a much better idea leaving him in charge than re-rolling dice. Any institution quickly becomes a corrupt shadow of what it was originally envisioned as once the original people involved move on.
The debian project here acts as a counter-example: The institution governing the project far outlived its original creator and the "debian social contract" clearly helped to that.
Additionally, Infomaniak seems to have registered here as a Swiss "public interest" foundation. This has several implications:
(1) Swiss authority regularly audit the foundation and verify that there is no conflict of interests with the registered chart.
(2) Usage of the money should be done in respect of the chart.
(3) If any of the previous conditions is not respected. The Swiss authorities can step it and dissolve the entire thing or even take control.
I wonder if it has any impact on Infomaniak's earlier position on Switzerland's privacy laws, e.g.:
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/infomaniak-breaks-r...
The experience has been nothing but awesome. I love the Android clients (mail, calendar sync) and I am also using their AI services for light tasks. Management UI is a bit confusing but not the worst I deal with.
Glad to see this move. I am a fan!.
https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2351/understanding...
I have no idea what this means, but it certainly made me wonder how much of the rest of their offering has no support and put an instant halt on us moving the company over from GSuite or whatever it's called this week.
Putting "important" in there, even in parentheses, is highly disrespectful, as it implies the necessity to be read immediately, whereas in reality this doesn't have any impact on customers at all.
Infomaniak overall has a decent product offering, but I've noticed repeatedly incompetence and manipulative behaviour such as this from them and am considering moving away entirely.
If you claim to be ethically superior, I'll hold you to higher standards.
Maybe not urgent, but important indeed. Saying that this is "highly disrespectful" and "manipulative" is exaggerated.
[1] https://linuxfr.org/users/acatton/journaux/gandi-passe-de-no...
I think you might read it as: `An "important" message from the founder...`
On this, Gemini says:
In French text, parentheses are frequently used for
nuance, self-correction, or an understated aside. They
act like a slight lowering of the voice, a wink, or a
humble qualification.
> I'm writing to you as the founder and strategic director of Infomaniak because something important has just happened, and it concerns you directly.
All in all the final message is great but the way it was communicated not so much.