# Should Privacy Guides require open-source, source-first or source-available as a criteria for all tools?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/should-privacy-guides-require-open-source-source-first-or-source-available-as-a-criteria-for-all-tools/22684
**Category:** Site Development
**Created:** 2024-11-24T09:28:13Z
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## Post 6 by @ph00lt0 — 2024-11-24T09:50:23Z

It should be the other way around.

> [@What does Privacy Guides see as OpenSource?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/what-does-privacy-guides-see-as-opensource/20230/78):
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> Hot take coming in. I think there is not such an importance of something being open source at all in privacy space. Dont get me wrong. Open source is a great good which I deeply support and many in privacy space do. I guess we are often the same kind of people caring for these things. Many offerings in the privacy world are also in some way open source which is the reason for these discussions and on my opinion confusion on the importance. The discussion here is mostly held by people who have …

The ideal world does not exist. With such requirements you cannot make the right recommendations.

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