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> We're going to have to agree to disagree there.

Everyone can of course have their own opinions. But they cannot have their own facts, a discussion does not work that way.

Whether one considers some statement as entitled, that is an opinion and we can disagree about this.

But whether a program is open source or not is a fact. It doesn't matter if the source code is going to be released a day or a year after the Signal server has been pushed into production, at that very moment the program is not open source. Your comment about my time-frame is irrelevant. In the github issue 11101 link I posted above is Moxie admitting to running versions of the server that are ahead of the public git repository. These are factually closed source, and you continuing to argue against that fact doesn't reflect well on you, nor the ability to have serious discussions with you.



To be pedantic, only the ones that posses the binary need the source code for something to be open source. Since they did not publish the binary and since they have the source code we could say that it is actually open source software.




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