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I wonder what alternative they would propose? If you want people to be able to use your app, you have to support the most popular app platforms, and if that means signing and agreement with Apple and/or Google, you have to do that. Anything else is "ivory tower" thinking.

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Its no about platform but using proprietary stuff, you should be able to compile and run it on a complete opensource android without the proprietary parts.

I think that's the second point in the list:

> A big part of the contact tracing protocol (which was originally the DP3T protocol) is implemented by Apple-Google in a part of the system called GAEN. This part has no available source code although the law requires disclosure of the source code of all components of the system.

Since the first point is separate from that, it must be referring to something else?!

I think it’s pretty obvious? You describe the situation as if it has been discovered as a law of physics to which all humans are subject.

Change the system... honor open source principles.

If ivory tower thinking means, improved state of affairs, then.. ok... ? Call it whatever you want haha.

I'm against the walled gardens of Apple, Google, Amazon etc. too, I'm just saying that if you want to launch an app for which it is especially important that as many people as possible should be able to use it, you have to think pragmatically...

The point is that you shouldn't mislead the population in claiming this app is open source when it actually isn't.

Some consequential parts of the protocol are implemented as a black box.

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