> Can I run a client from the Git repo and still use all of their infrastructure?
Yes. You can.
They describe how in the very repo I linked. Your ardent unwillingness to spend the 30-45 seconds it would take to find this out before spouting unwarranted false criticism is quite strange. Do you have some personal issue with OWS?
I really didn't mean to be defending OWS here - I'd much rather see Signal leveraging non-Google APIs in some way and provided via F-Droid (though I have read their arguments against that w.r.t. performance) but I'm astounded at the wilful ignorance here.
If you're genuinely interested in promoting secure messaging, a desire to get your facts straight and answer your own questions instead of assuming the negative should be step 1. Otherwise, you're needlessly steering people away from a tool that could practically improve their privacy.
Yes. You can.
They describe how in the very repo I linked. Your ardent unwillingness to spend the 30-45 seconds it would take to find this out before spouting unwarranted false criticism is quite strange. Do you have some personal issue with OWS?
I really didn't mean to be defending OWS here - I'd much rather see Signal leveraging non-Google APIs in some way and provided via F-Droid (though I have read their arguments against that w.r.t. performance) but I'm astounded at the wilful ignorance here.
If you're genuinely interested in promoting secure messaging, a desire to get your facts straight and answer your own questions instead of assuming the negative should be step 1. Otherwise, you're needlessly steering people away from a tool that could practically improve their privacy.