Private Internet Access releases software as open source

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  1. guest

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    Private Internet Access releases software as open source
    Private Internet Access, a company best known for its VPN Service of the same name, announced today that it started the process of releasing all of its software as open source.

    March 16, 2018
    https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/16/private-internet-access-open-source/
     
  2. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    Hey, that's pretty cool!
     
  3. deBoetie

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    I'd hope more providers will follow. If you think about what you are actually paying for in a VPN service, it's not really the software - you want that to be properly supported for sure. But what matters most, IMO, is the professional approach to security, including their sysadmin opsec, and providing good and available hardware and support. All of that is consistent with open source code and paying a decent amount of money.
     
  4. EASTER

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    Never thought I would see the day where Open Source of really useful softs are looked on with so much favor then the reverse, but here we are.
     
  5. RockLobster

    RockLobster Registered Member

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    For years there has been this myth, that developers use closed source to protect the their work from being copied.
    The truth is quite the opposite. Any developer knows, it is not the coding that is the problem, it is comming up with the idea.
    Just like with music, any good musician can play Hotel California, but could they all have written that song? Probably not.
    It is the same with software, once someone else has developed an idea into an application, other developers can code their own application to do the same thing.
    The truth is closed source is used to hide things.
     
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