• potentiallynotfelix
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    11 hours ago

    Signal is centralized, loops is closed source and not accepting new users.

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      10 hours ago

      Loops will be open sourced later they say.

      Is Loops open source? It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.

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        8 hours ago

        That means very little to me. Actions speak louder than words, and it would probably help the development of loops if it was actually open source.

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        9 hours ago

        That really is not a satisfying answer. It is incredibly nebulous and even if it did have a nice definition I guarantee most software developers will tell you a lot of software rarely reaches that state.

        I can see why they might want to avoid 1000 GitHub issues bike shedding things but they could open source the code and just not have open contribution