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"Real time collaboration systems such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Mattermost, Wire, Threema, WhatsApp and Signal are currently all closed proprietary systems - m
by Pr0ject217 4y ago
"Real time collaboration systems such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Mattermost, Wire, Threema, WhatsApp and Signal are currently all closed proprietary systems - meaning they are walled gardens whereby all parties have to use the same vendor."
Signal is in this list. Isn't this false? The server and clients are here: https://github.com/signalapp https://github.com/signalapp
- msgilligan 4y agoSignal is (as far as I know) single-vendor, which they are confusingly calling “closed proprietary”
- Arathorn 4y agoI wrote this sentence. “closed proprietary” here means that it’s not an open standard, and it’s not an open network you can connect your own clients to, and so it’s vendor-locked, and in the case of Signal there are gaps of years when they don’t release opensource code on the server.
- IshKebab 4y agoI guess it's a bit debatable. It's more or less open source - apparently there have been long periods when it was closed source (I think when they added cryptocurrency nonsense) and also it's centralised so you have to use their servers. I would say it's a bit disingenuous to put it in the same list as Teams, Slack and WhatsApp though.