Care to comment on this nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 . Pretty Please.
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My perspective is that Coldcard and other projects (Umbrel) attempt to coopt the term opensource for "street cred" while simultaneously barring ventures from using their source code.
The "open" in open source is about freedom of use, not code viewability.
Source viewable projects that bar ventures from using it are not open source; it's the opposite.
This has become enough of a theme within #Bitcoin and other industries that the Open Source Initiative had to publish a definition that specifically calls these projects out as "license traps".
> "The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it."
Coinkite stopped marketing the coldcard as open source a while ago, so saying they are coopting the ‘opensource’ buzz word for street cred is disingenuous. Their marketing on their website is that the coldcard uses ‘verifiable source code’ which is factual.
Isn’t the distinction you’re pointing out the difference between open source and free and open source?
It always the ppl who don't build anything who have the most retarded things to say.
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I’m very sure a lot of people whether they do or don’t, enjoy destroying something before building has properly begun. Always okay for everyone else to build what they want right? (maybe should think about needing people to say inspiring things to further their causes in the real world. Bit stupid if they don’t)