Discourse Fires Back: 'We're Staying Open Source' — 13 Years of Evidence That Transparency Enables Larger Defensive Response
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In direct response to Cal.com's closed-source pivot, Discourse published a rebuttal arguing that AI doesn't need source code to find vulnerabilities — it works against compiled binaries and black-box APIs. After 13 years of open-source development, Discourse says they've seen no evidence that public source code made them less secure, and that transparency enables a much larger defensive response through coordinated disclosure and community patching.