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    10 hours ago

    Hang on… that’s not a gift. The hard work is making money from free software. You’ve indebted a foundation to the sum of $100,000,000.00 and you’re telling them:

    A) pay it back

    B) via commercializing free software

    How the fuck do you do that? You can’t. What the fuck does a piece of software need that exorbitant amount for anyway? I guess that’s why Signal never really was libre software. There’s too much money to be made in spyware.

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      8 hours ago

      Generally couldn’t agree more, but

      What the fuck does a piece of software need that exorbitant amount for anyway?

      For a widely used chat app with calling and video calling, servers.

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        4 hours ago

        A self-inflicted burden because they refuse to liberate the server side code. Besides, they can’t be burning through that reserve as they need to pay it back and how on earth are they going to do that?