I was looking into Tailscale which I thought to be complexly open source, but it turns out that their coordination server is closed source. If you want to run your own open source coordination server, Headscale is the go-to option.

This is no fault of their own (as they freely express this in their FAQ) it’s just that I had always been told by people that Tailscale was fully open source. This got me wondering what else is not as open source as people widely accept it to be?

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  • azukaarBEnglish
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    Tailscale is using “being opensource” as a marketing term and it’s working. The coordination server is a center piece of the architecture, the client being open is meaningless

    Another example of this is Plex, many people don’t actually know the fact that it went closed and that only the client is open source

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    What is a self-hosted app/os/service/ect

    Just what…?? smh

    Another genious post from you was recently:

    What switch would be good to run openWRT on that is proven reliable and resource capable? It would need at least 10x 1Gb ports, but I guess more would be better to use link aggregation. I only have 1.2 Gbs upload speed so I don't need anything too industrial.

    I'm looking to spend under $500 on one and I'm perfectly willing to buy used from eBay. (I got my supermicro board and xeon and ecc ram used there for my NAS and they've been going great for a couple years now.)

    And then you deleted it.

    I was looking into Tailscale which I thought to be complexly open source, but it turns out that their coordination server is closed source. If you want to run your own open source coordination server, Headscale is the go-to option.

    Yes, so if you want to fully selfhost Tailscale, use Headcale. Whats the problem?

    that I had always been told by people that Tailscale was fully open source.

    Stop listening to “those people” then.

    This got me wondering what else is not as open source as people widely accept it to be?

    Portainer Business Edition (afaik) isnt open source but the Community Edition is.