Long title, wopsi.

Recently been checking out PIA VPN service(for research purposes), and they advertise their services to be 100% open source. However when checking their Github they don’t seem to have their code base for website there.

So this have had me wondering, when you hear the term 100% open source. Do you expect ALL of what they do, including website part, to be open source? Or just the application / service that they offer?

Lemmyknow your thoughts!

  • @TootSweetEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    The whole idea of a service being “open source” sounds like nonsense to me. “Open source” refers to code, not services.

    Might as well call my cat “100% open source.”

    I might use a term like “open source friendly” for a service to mean “can be used without using any proprietary software.”

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      Lol are you like 85 years old?

      Open source is a term relating to software. Software is created using code. This isn’t a hard idea to track.

      Software as a service is common. Feel free to read up.