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OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations (codeberg.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just saw the discussion around the Haier Home Assistant takedown and thought it would be good to materialize the metaphorical blacklist.

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[–] Gooey0210 -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Facebook has their reasons to keep stuff as closed as possible, and they don't claim to be opensource

But proton does, and it's not about privacy or security, but about using banner of foss just for their own benefit, and don't contribute what they claim to the foss community

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

They open source all of their clients (when not in beta). They maintain multiple open source cryptographic libraries, in multiple languages, which a lot of developers and companies go on to use. They have a yearly fundraiser for open source and digital rights groups, which they contribute a $100,000 to each year.

Just because their server code is not open source, doesn't mean they don't support open source. It's not an all or nothing situation. Binary thinking and classification is a very dangerous and naïve way to look at things.