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Signal has the same policy. I understand that these companies are paying money to host their API servers, but c'mon. Either run a free, open service or don't.

The guy has a point. They write on Medium[1]:

Q: How is open source going to impact Wire’s users and what are the opportunities for them? Wire’s users can now build their own client from our source code and run it on our platform.

Which is clearly not the case...

[1] https://medium.com/@wireapp/you-can-now-build-your-own-wire-...

Why is this posted here?

Draw attention to it for that dev; so the team is forced to take action. It's fair play. I've seen it go both ways; someone crushed Stripe with allegations and PC and several support techs showed up; guy was breaking the terms bad.

HN is a good place for devs and companies to get clarity. In that case; it pushed me towards stripe; in other cases away from an unscrupulous company

Wire App open source client – major restrictions