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Why do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question. (lemmy.cat)
submitted 1 year ago by retiolus@lemmy.cat to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] projectmoon@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had opened sourced part of, but not all of it.

[–] jack@monero.town 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then it's 100% proprietary.

[–] projectmoon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I think they opened up the client, but not the server part. They also use some goofy license.

They're not really open source, no. But they do at least support open standards.