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Not clear on why they made that call, but those are incidentally the exact set of platforms where they can't rapidly ship security updates (it's dependent on th

Not clear on why they made that call, but those are incidentally the exact set of platforms where they can't rapidly ship security updates (it's dependent on the vagaries of the platforms store).

EMIRELADERO 4y ago
AFAIK they don't ship the Windows program through the Microsoft Store. Don't think the argument holds water.
- bradfitz 4y ago
  We're working on getting it in the Microsoft Store. (as an option)
  - chipsa 4y ago
    Does this imply potentially automatically updating, instead of me remembering to go get the MSI?
Operyl 4y ago
From their FAQ[0]: > Is Tailscale open source? > Mostly. Tailscale daemon client code is open source. Where the operating system is open source, the daemon and GUI are open source, and where the operating system is closed, the daemon is open source and the GUI is closed source. You can run just the tailscaled daemons on Windows, it just wouldn't have a GUI, and that's fully open source[1]. Some more justification from Brad himself. [2] [0] https://tailscale.com/opensource/#:~:text=Is%20Tailscale%20open%20source%3F,the%20GUI%20is%20closed%20source https://tailscale.com/opensource/#:~:text=Is%20Tailscale%20o.... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28901253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28901253 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470615
- EMIRELADERO 4y ago
  Still pretty bad from a security perspective. Even if it's non-trivial for a developer to self-deploy, transparency is always a positive.