Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on October 26, 2023, 05:36:17 PM

Why would they waste their time going through the GitHub of a "source verifiable" project knowing they can't do anything with that code, when they could spend their time going through the GitHub of an "open source" project knowing they can use that code for anything they like?

"Source accessible" or "source verifiable" simply means fewer people will be looking at the code than they would if it were open source. And for the ordinary wallet user, this is what matters.

ColdCard has a good security, right? And if company profits from their product, they'll have a motivation to improve their product or others will sink them. If company's work will be easily copied and sold better with high budget marketing, then one will rarely bother to create such a good product. Also, I want to emphasize that Coldcard's wallet source code, that is publicly available for everyone to view. Yes, you can't copy their code and build a new product on top of that but if developer wants to know what's happening behind the scenes, to learn what makes ColdCard such a secure wallet, any developer can view it's code and do whatever they want in their computer. It's a great opportunity to learn and enlighten yourself. I genuinely believe, such a publicly available code will help and inspire others to create a better product than ColdCard is.

Let's say you are a developer and I am a rich guy. You spent days and night to create a very secure bitcoin wallet, yes, you built it on others work but still you created a new and advanced code. You created a hardware wallet built on your code and started manufacturing and releasing of them. Then I, a rich guy, hired some developers, copied your code and with way bigger marketing budget, released a product built on your code and somehow because of our bigger budget, we managed to become more popular than you and finally took you over. I think this is a very logic scenario. That's why I am more tolerant in this case.