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Mostly from scratch.

Cannot speak directly to experience of original developers, but I could see moving target as being an issue.

Would love to see our code open sourced someday and be useful to others, especially state exchanges, but that is a long-term goal. Currently we are laser-focused on getting everything ready to ship by next open enrollment.

When I see a GPLv2 app in the app store that is non-free, how do I know that the proceeds are properly going to the XaoS project?

I don't know if you did the "right" thing, whatever the hell that means, but I think you did the humane thing.

We're trying to have the best of both worlds.

You are not anonymous to Airtime -- so you can be held accountable for your actions in the public areas of the site. However, you are always anonymous to new people that you meet. We do not send your facebook id, name, or geolocation to anyone you don't know until you mutually friend them.

Please send your facebook id to [email protected] to help us track this. Thank you!

Airtime is about extending your social graph one algorithmically-matched individual at a time (one-to-one). Ustream and Justin.tv are about broadcast channels (one-to-many) of which only a small percentage of the browsable directory are active at any point in time.

Read your posts: allow us to prepopulate your video library with YouTube videos that you've shared on your wall in the past.

XMPP permissions: we are deeply integrated with facebook chat. Your friends online on Facebook can send and receive xmpp messages to you on Airtime.

Agreed that we could improve the messaging. Thanks for the feedback.

That number would be still too high for us. We want virtually zero.

When you are chatting in the "public" area anonymously with other users, we take screenshots to monitor for abusive behavior. When you direct call someone from your buddy list, that is a private conversation that is not monitored (like a phone or Skype call).

Also, legal says we should cover our asses :)

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We would most certainly not do anything like that intentionally. The normal user flow is the standard facebook app authentication dialog that clearly lists all the permissions required for the site to work.

When you are connected to someone you aren't friends with, your profile is flipped to anonymous mode. So your identity is protected and you have the social freedom anonymity provides; but you are still held accountable for your actions for user safety.

This is boilerplate. The important part is having the freedom to keep the site absolutely safe.