Bengaluru hosted the 5th edition of IndiaFOSS (Free and Open Source Software) over the weekend. Those lucky enough to attend it would have been pleasantly surprised at the complexity and ambition of some of the open-source ventures being undertaken by young engineers from across the breadth of the country. Take the case of Ente, an open source project that’s trying to provide an alternative to Google Photos. Ente’s founder and CEO Vishnu Mohandas left a promising career at Google to build a privacy-preserving photo space people could trust. “We’re very ambitious. What’s the point of doing anything small?” he quips. Mohandas argues that while big tech excels at security, it fails at privacy. “Photos reveal so much about us that platforms can know more about you than you know yourself,

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