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by blitzar 1689 days ago
> Signal has a policy around not talking about future features

aka only we invent things here. open source in name only

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Open source doesn't automatically mean community driven. Signal could have an entirely closed roadmap and plan, while still allowing you to see the source and fork it if you want something different. It's over the top to call that "open source in name only". It's real open source, you can do what you want with the source. The project roadmap is just not community driven.
> It's over the top to call that "open source in name only"

App updates roll out and the 'source' doesnt change for 11 months? Thats 'real open source'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26345937