[image] Skiff Pages/Drive (Productivity Tools) We require both productivity tools and notebooks to be open-source This is interesting requirement considering that you recommend 1Password, a closed source password manager that arguably protects even more sensitive data. So, your stricter requir…

I was only referring to the same topic that you originally linked. While I admit I was incorrect in saying that PG already had an agreed-upon definition of open-source, in practice, the OSI definition has been the de facto definition. Regardless, open-source is a word and PG is not a dictionary; th…

[image] phnx: the OSI definition has been the de facto definition. I don’t think its a great precedent to just claim something is de facto to sidestep a conversation you rather not have in a rush to create a criteria with no clear benefit. If you want the OSI definition to be the definition P…

Well let’s just mini analyze the current case for the recommended password managers that are not open source and they are on the list. 1Password The product even as an online closed source password manager has endured in time. But it is and will probably always be an online closed source password …

As i have repeated above PG, as in the Team, has not made a clear decision yet on what definition we will follow, this is why that thread is created, currently it is to vague, which is the problem we are now trying to fix.

I know that this thread and that thread have different purposes. Its why that thread has to be complete before this one, in my opinion, as we already have an issue with requiring opensource when we have never defined what that means in the first place, which is problematic.

[image] What does Privacy Guides see as OpenSource? Site Development Continuing from this discussion: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/grayjay-frontend/14616 Open source is a complex term with lots of different takes that depends on what kind of perspective one looks …

[image] Anon47486929: People keep repeating this as if this is needed. [image] Niek-de-Wilde: as we already have an issue with requiring opensource when we have never defined what that means in the first place, which is problematic. It’s been concerning how many people in this thread r…

[image] anon29374801: This benefit is also a double edged sword, the availability of source code can create a false sense of security, potentially leading to less rigorous internal verification processes. I don’t really think that’s fair to say. There’s not any reason software developers woul…

[image] fria: There’s not any reason software developers would suddenly stop caring about security I did not say there was. The issue isn’t a lack of caring, the issue is a false sense that “if we do slip up, the community will catch us” which can lead to less rigorous verification. Which I t…

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