All Proton Drive apps are now open source | Proton
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Proton Drive’s desktop apps are open source, meaning you can review the code of any Proton Drive app for yourself.
    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Why the but? GPL 3 is the correct license to use for open source projects to ensure they stay open and corps don’t freeload on them.

      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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        2 months ago

        English isn’t my first language. I share your opinion regarding the license. Which connector would you use instead of “but” to indicate that you succeeded in your efforts even though it was harder you thought it would be?

        • 0ops@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          English is my only language, and yours looks fine to me. I thought it was pretty clear from the first comment that the “but” indicated success despite difficulties, and as you clarified that’s exactly what you meant.

        • ambitiousslab@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Any new open source software is always a net positive.

          But, there are a few small caveats to the way they’ve done it (depending on how cynical/cautious you are):

          • Because Proton are not accepting contributions, they own all the copyright, so can make the code closed source again if they want to (that wouldn’t affect the already released versions, but future versions)
          • They could likely take down any derivative on iOS, since Apple will always take instruction from the copyright holder, for GPL’d code
          • Since the builds are not reproducible, there’s no guarantee that the binaries they distribute are built from the source code
  • Lupec@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Very nice, I do hope that helps us finally get a Linux version sometime soon lol

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Feels like this would be a bigger win for them than a lot of other companies. The people interested in privacy focused alternative to the Google/Microsoft/Apple offerings probably have a lot of overlap with Linux users.

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        bcs github is owned by microsoft its not that private nor open source(like git)

  • cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I want to make the jump from Google apps but I can’t because I use GCal heavily and Proton Calendar doesn’t (yet) sync to GCal. I can enter in something in GCal and it’ll appear in Proton Calendar, but I can’t enter in something in Proton Calendar and it shows up in GCal. Hopefully they add that soon.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      If you want to move away from Google apps, why keep using Google Calendar? Maybe someone has a suggestion for a way to work with it if you say what your continued use case for it is and what kind of limitations you are working with.