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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.

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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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