> Of course signal is open source, it’s on f-droid

Even with their criticism, the author is giving Signal too much credit.

Signal is not on F-Droid. Signal sends their lawyers after open-source app repos for including their app.

I think the only claim they have is their trademark name "Signal". I wonder what's a good name for packagers to use for apps like this. Reminds me of Firefox and IceCat, or Rust Lang and Crab Lang.