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Re:I don't trust Signal by s73v3r_ on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:47PM (#17725849)
"why he does not maintain a F-Droid repository for people who do not trust google"

Are you paying him to do that? No? Well, there you go. It's more work, for what appears to be very little benefit.

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Re:I don't trust Signal by xvector on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:27PM (#17727000)
As another person said:

> The Signal Foundation has 50 million dollars.

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Re:I don't trust Signal by tptacek on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:20PM (#17727527)
None of it came from the phone sysadmins. Rather, it came from a benefactor that wanted to work with Moxie and Trevor.
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Re:I don't trust Signal by s73v3r_ on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:28PM (#17727023)
Doesn't matter. F-Droid is more work to support.
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Re:I don't trust Signal by icebraining on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:21PM (#17729065)
I would pay a share, and I'm sure others would too. Unless he has set a price and there were no takers, that argument is fallacious.
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