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Same disclaimer from the Twitter thread for full transparency:

DISCLAIMER: Obviously I work for Foundation, a competitor to COLDCARD, but the views I lay out here were already true before joining Foundation.

I would be just as happy if this led to zero sales of Passport but got the truth out there.

Freedom and integrity matter.

DRE 2y ago

What truth are you getting out there? The picture clearly shoes coinkite removed the ‘Open Source’ and changed it to ‘Verifiable Code’. Is the code note verifiable? Where is the lie? What am I missing?

You say you’re cool with companies choosing to make their own decisions on licensing, but then you attack them when they do.

The whole FOSS thing clearly changes when hardware is introduced imo. There is a lot more cost, complexity, and risk when shipping software + hardware than just software. As a user it’s easy to complain about companies not having Open Source code when you’re not the one responsible for running that business.

You say integrity matters. Will Foundation or you address the claims that foundation essentially cloned the mk3 which played a crucial role in them getting funding. I don’t know how you take someone’s code turn around and sell hardware for personal gain. It’s not like they are releasing free software for anyone to use at no cost. This sounds more like socialism or stealing. Just my 2 sats

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Seth For Privacy 2y ago

The lie is that they still pretend on Twitter that they are in the same camp as the FOSS movement and share an ethos when they clearly do not belong anywhere close to the FOSS movement.

They still try to use it for marketing etc. which is purely a lie.

As for integrity on the subject of "cloning", you can read my responses here:

https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1651222101343236099?s=20

DRE 2y ago

Where are the receipts of them pretending to pass off as FOSS? The only thing you showed is them claiming their source code can be verified which is true.

Where is the marketing material claiming their code is Open Source?

It seems you can do everything with their software except profiting from it by creating a competing business that sells hardware.

All this outrage and old fud seems manufactured