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importantly though Beeper also built a lot of the bridges and maintain a lot more as FOSS
unsure about using a FOSS client with their service, but you can definitely use a FOSS client with their bridges that you host yourself and it’s functionally very similar AFAIK
it's so weird then to make the app closed source. I would guess that a lot of potential users would care about this and are unhappy with that …
i think it makes sense... that’s the pattern with a lot of FOSS but for-profit: make the hard (but generic) functionality FOSS and then make your “skin” that ties it all together, thing that makes it pretty, the differentiator closed and sell that