Instant Messaging in Fedora Workstation

Nikos Roussos comzeradd at fedoraproject.org
Sun Apr 26 15:11:02 UTC 2015


On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jiri Eischmann <jeischma at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> The server part of Telegram is closed source, but they've promised to 
> open source it when it's ready. The API/protocol is open, existing 
> clients are open, the server side is promised to be open in near 
> future. I don't think Telegram scores badly in terms of openness. 
> What they're not planning is an infrastructure of independent servers 
> though.

But it's not federated. So even if the open up server's code you still 
need to trust them for running the code they release and to hold the 
complete social graph of the whole network. Not very aligned with our 
values.

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