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will the books be open sourced? e.g. how much was donated vs how much it costs to run signal? Whom gets any excess? If it's truly non-profit, why not form a 503c that I can get a tax deduction for? That last part is what is required for larger donors to come on board.

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They are a non profit, they just havent released their numbers in a few years https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...

Leave it to Signal to keep things hidden for long periods of time (like the server code while it was building some cryptocurrency). Seriously, Signal is not an open or transparent organization by any measure. Ironically, it’s an authoritarian and user hostile platform when examined at a deeper level. Instead of allowing other clients or allowing chat backups (still not possible on iOS) or not exposing your phone number by default to everyone else, it hammers on both trivial and very hard matters that aren’t what a typical user wants right now.

Check signal's homepage. At the bottom, it says "Signal, a 501c3 nonprofit". Is that what you mean?

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