The damages causes to the developers are equal to the profits made by the company that took their code and made improvements to it, without sharing it upstream as legally required

Wire is better than those imho

I use Wire. Its the best option right now. Better than SimpleX, Signal, and Matrix for many reasons

If you’re upset, just ask them for the source. If they don’t respond, sue.

In any case, we’re all going to get the source and we’ll all benefit from this.

If its forked from a Foss project then its necessarily a Foss project. That’s why we use Foss licenses.

It doesn’t matter what the license chatgpt spat out says. If they forked from a Foss base repo, then all of the code they make will be FOSS too. This is great.

How is it boot licking to get money from rich people to develop open source software?

Lemmy is FOSS that was funded by a grant from NLNet. Its the same outcome as this.

If anyone is licking boots, its the rich people licking the FOSS boots

This is how open source is supposed to work. Everything they’re doing is now going to improve the open source codebase. This is good.

Grifters gonna grift. I read the article. This source obviously has a bias.

That’s abnormal.

It is the norm in the West. See other comments. I don’t know why OP is surprised.

I wouldn’t trust anything sold on kickstarter.

But if someone launches an open hardware version of this on crowd supply, I’d back it

Is this an article from a company selling silver telling us to sell our crypto and buy…silver?

k thx no

I can’t use discord because they require phone numbers from users who use privacy tools.

What does this mean for people who don’t use discord?

What do you mean by “spaces”?

Is everything encrypted yet? Or do they still allow users to send unencrypted messages?

No mention of the mental instability of the founder and the toxicity of the Dev team?

That sounded like grub until you said ISO file

Right, the fact that it’s open is the reason this came to light, and we’re having this discussion

Wtf is ventoy and why is nobody explaining it