Quote from: zherbert on Today at 02:35:09 PM

I am not going to tolerate anyone saying Passport is a "copy-paste"; at this point it is a ridiculous statement. As we've said many times before, we ported parts of the codebase to a fresh MicroPython repo.

It is impossible for Passport to be a copy-paste because it's completely different hardware with different hardware features. We have an entire GUI as well. Take 5 minutes to do a diff between our repos and you will quickly see that it's a load of nonsense. It's blatant slander by NVK and team.

You cannot seriously try to compare Coldcard to Nikola Tesla when they simply started a MicroPython project, pulled in Trezor's crypto libraries, added a secure element, and wrote some PSBT code. Everyone is building on top of everyone else; that is how open source is supposed to work.

Wow, glad to see you here, I didn't know if you were on this forum.
By the way, I have mentioned that your GUI is different from Colcard and I don't say your hardware is copy/paste. You improved GUI side of ColdCard and made your wallet easier to use, what I said above was only about code. Your wallet has camera also, it's good, no one says it's bad. I often recommend your wallet and CC to people.

I just want to explain that ColdCard's source is available for anyone to use and verify, that's all that matters for users. When people simply say ColdCard isn't open source, it looks like ColdCard and Ledger are comperable in terms of status of their code. Both of them are not open source but there is a huge difference. Ledger is closed-source, no one can check what code their Ledger runs but ColdCard is not open source in a sense that they don't allow competitors to simply copy their work, on another hand, anyone can see and verify the code. This doesn't make them bad and doesn't ruin their reputation. In a business where you work days and nights to write a code and there is a danger that rich businessman will copy and paste your code and sell a clone but dive you because of money and better marketing, I think it's okay to protect yourself from this danger.