Comment by rglullis
2 years ago
> What happened to open source?
Open source is not magic fairy dust that can solve everything. You still need funding for developers, you still need to acquire customers to provide a feedback cycle, you still need device makers making it easy to install your app, etc.
Then is seems like you do understand why Signal isn’t as open as you’d like.
No. Signal has the funding, the technical talent and the customers. They are as "open source" as it can be. The issue with them is that they want to control the platform.
Have you considered that they might have a reason for that? You act as if control has no value to their mission.
Controlling the platform allows them to continue to evolve it while maintaining the convenient and spam-free user experience that users enjoy.
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