[darklajid]

Why is another closed source/paid product better than this one?

I'm okay with a price for something that I might use every day, but if I'm accepting closed source solutions - what's the benefit of Threema here?

[mrmister1]

Telegram is as good as closed source too. Look more into what they've actually open sourced...

[darklajid]

I 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