On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
For those who were not present at the meetup, kontalk is a Free Software replacement for whatsapp - you can chat with anyone if you know their phone number using a data connection (cheaper sms for many people). See http://kontalk.org
Currently it is available only on android. Their next version would support XMPP and it would make it easy to get it working on other platforms.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Prakash Shetty prithvis@gmail.com wrote:
You can also look at telegram https://telegram.org
The code is GPL
There is also a $200,000 bounty for anybody cracking it.
I see only the client applications are released under free software licenses for both Kontalk and Telegram. Only when the server side application is also released as free software so that people can self-host, it can be considered free software imho.
Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad