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Telegram is as good as closed source too. Look more into what they've actually open sourced...
by mrmister1 11y ago
Telegram is as good as closed source too. Look more into what they've actually open sourced...
- darklajid 11y agoI know. [1] Which is a pity. If you'd want to believe their promise [2] they do plan to open up everything, but at the moment they're a closed source IM provider. But that's irrelevant. The GP hijacked a thread about Telegram with Threema, with a three letter acronym and nothing else. For me, Telegram and Threema have the same flaw (not open). If I'd have to pick one of the two, I'd go with Telegram I guess - it's free (as in beer) and offers clients for nearly every platform I could care about. So 'Telegram isn't open either' is correct, but misses the point: Given 'Threema FTW' my reaction was 'Why'? 1: When I wrote Why is another closed source/paid product better than this one? I tried to say (not my native language) Why is Threema, a closed source/paid product, better than this (closed source) one? 2: https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-open-source-everything https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-open-source-everything