Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”

Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by segfaultbuserr on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:19AM (#25760694)

Yeah, I can imagine that payment links can potentially be used as a loophole for selling unauthorized in-app payment items outside the store. But this is not the case here, nothing is sold, it's literally only a link to the project home page, https://wireguard.com/donations/.

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Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by zaarn on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:04AM (#25761014)

Simple solution, there are human reviewers for this kinda reason and if the rule is "Open Source Apps get a donation button" then not any random can loophole around.

Heck, if both Apple and Google offered a solution by which you provide the source code to build, any necessary secret variables for the build and then it gives you those extra privileges, it would be nice. But that costs money the open source apps don't have.

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Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by comeonseriously on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:43AM (#25761290)

Apple could win a hole lot of points here by processing the donations themselves. The upside for them is that it would close the loophole.

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Re:Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac ... by zaarn on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:55AM (#25761380)

Only if they don't take a fee, to effectively steal donation money for themselves.

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