Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign
by rubberband on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:40PM
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Late to the party here, but I deal in this space all day. You are 100% correct.
Disputes over eSignatures come up allllll the time. And if you mention that it was "DocuSigned"... although you have done nothing aside from name-dropping... it will essentially end the dispute. Not saying that it should. Just saying that it does.
Re:Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign
by alexopensource on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:15AM
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Hopefully people will say “OpenSigned” one day and it will have the same impact.
If there’s a dispute over the veracity of a signature, it’s probably helpful to have a third party say “according to our server logs and software stack, this was signed by [email protected] at 12:41pm on August 3rd, from the IP address XX.XXX.XXX.XX, and they authenticated with their email and password”. If I’m self-hosting, it’s marginally less convincing when I’m before a court if I say *my* software stack says that, since I have more direct control over it.
So, I agree DocuSign doesn’t have a special status, other than being a relatively neutral third party to that dispute. But if a signature’s validity is being questioned, that third party status is probably somewhat helpful.