Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Proposal to revise FSDG to exclude SaaSS-only software clients

[Richard Stallman]

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  > - Telegram Desktop communicates exclusively with SaaSS Telegram
  >   servers, there is vendor's lock in, and there exist no free server
  >   software that users can host it themselves and thus operated client
  >   software such as Telegram Desktop with their own self-hosted
  >   servers.

That is basically true.  However, what that server does is not SaaSS.
SaaSS means a server offers to do a compation for you that you could,
in principle, do in your own computers without talking with anyone
else.  A communication server is not like that.

See https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html.

We recommand GNU Jami, which is fully decentralized.

    > https://core.telegram.org/api/terms where that API terms dictate
    > limits on how client software cannot be changed; this impairs users'
    > freedom, but we are are, due to GPL3, free to ignore such further
    > restrictions.

That sounds bad, but it is vague.  Could you tell me more about these
restrictions?  Have you studied what they say?


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