I’m all for governments using taxpayer money to develop good software as long as they make it open source, sadly that’s rarely the case. Germany made some progress in that area, but that’s about it.
I bet the idea is that the data stays in France, and I fully understand and support this. Even if it is not open-source, but of course it would be preferable.
Ah, because government-funded software is obviously safer. /s
I bet, if they develop their own messager, they won’t make it open-source.
I’m all for governments using taxpayer money to develop good software as long as they make it open source, sadly that’s rarely the case. Germany made some progress in that area, but that’s about it.
I bet the idea is that the data stays in France, and I fully understand and support this. Even if it is not open-source, but of course it would be preferable.
According to the article they are using olvid. Doesn’t look open source
And is, surprise surprise, French.
Hon hon hon 🧄
clients are, but not the server-side parts
It seems to be a proprietary product. And there’s no Linux version. So yeah, not great.
When you are the said government, you obviously know who is spying the app you know.