If you or I want to claim Signal is open-source, that is fine and appropriate.
The issue is that Signal portrays themself as FOSS when they aren’t, which leads to users believing it is FOSS.
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If you or I want to claim Signal is open-source, that is fine and appropriate.
The issue is that Signal portrays themself as FOSS when they aren’t, which leads to users believing it is FOSS.
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