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Re:Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder by JohnKacz on Sunday March 13, 2016 @09:57AM (#11277696)
> isn't open

Their privacy page (in the comparison table) claims they are open source. I didn't see any links to their code however.

edit: Sorry, reading on mobile (after just waking up) and didn't see the link. Thanks @ukblewis

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Re:Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder by ukblewis on Sunday March 13, 2016 @09:58AM (#11277700)
Dude, read the webpage before you comment, they link to it: https://github.com/wireapp
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Re:Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder by chrisxcross on Sunday March 13, 2016 @10:54AM (#11277869)
Well, they seem to have some opensourced some of their code. But they are far away form being free software although they claim to use the GPL. If I can't build the software myself, I won't use it.
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Re:Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder by xiphias on Sunday March 13, 2016 @11:43AM (#11278040)
It means that it's partly open source, which means that the marketing material is lying. It's OK for a company to not be 100% open source, but it's not OK to lie, especially if trust is needed.
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