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I doubt it, somehow I feel it’s going to be even worse without him. I get a very Dorsey exits Twitter vibe from this, and that’s not a good thing…
He’s still on the board -> no way that’s coming
There do exist some third party clients that did not get shut down.
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Signal is free software, he can’t technologically or legally stop forks or third party clients. All he can realistically do is complain about them
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Trademark is an entirely different issue from copyright and it’s my understanding that the trademark was the only legal avenue of attack he had against LibreSignal. Other forks of Signal such as Molly avoid using Signal’s trademark for that reason
he can’t technologically
He can. The software is FOSS but the servers are under their control and they refuse federation or unofficial clients.
I’m talking about actually blocking forks/third party clients on a technological level, not ToS or demands in github tickets. As far as I am aware he does not have that ability.
According to their readme the fork called Molly uses Signal’s servers. Can he block Molly from using Signal’s servers? Has he tried to?
Probably his stance is not as aggressive as everyone thinks. I think he is fine with frontends, but not server federation stuff. Maybe I could be wrong, but that is an explanation that I could think of.
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Damn I wonder how much money moxie get on govr lol
This is the first time I see Signal in Brazilian news since the controversy regarding WhatsApp’s policy change one year ago (Signal’s adoption is null here, while WhatsApp is king, with Telegram somewhere in between), all because “WhatsApp’s founder is back leading a messaging app”, so for now we can say this move is at least good marketing for them.
Does it mean WhatsApp at the helm of Signal?
Brian Acton was one of the founders of WhatsApp, but he left WhatsApp a few years ago. Supposedly, he regretted selling WhatsApp to Facebook, which is why he got involved in Signal.
