Damus
Ava · 95w
Reminder: COLDCARD is not open source. #cybersecgirl #coldcard #opensourse Open source encourages competition, and furthers development. Open source is a foundational principle of bitcoin and the #...
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Nvk talked about this. They were fully open source before and another company took their code and rebuilt a wallet from it. So now it’s open source but with a limitation. You’re not allowed to build on top of it for profit. But an individual can take the code and use it to build their own wallet. Basically he doesn’t want people stealing his work and competing with his business.
Elephant in the root · 95w
He's using government violence to enforce bullshit copyright law which conflicts with the natural law. He's not an anarchist.
Hanshan · 90w
that's bullshit. the whole point of FOSS is that it empowers others to create something new. "i don't want to empower others to create something that competes" is a shitty attitude. See Matt Hills recent interview on CD for the correct attitude. nostr:nevent1qqswq3kff6d7g8tta2x3u8lm7apfw9vda2ny2...
Ava · 90w
The work they built upon and took a significant amount of code from Trezor. Did you even read the post you replied to?