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Steve Jobs in his announcement of FaceTime back in 2010 said it was gonna be open-source. That never happened.
They wanted it to work with a peer to peer protocol, but then got sued by a company I can't remember, so they instead relied on relay servers.
Sure, you could use FaceTime on Android and Windows (and I guess Linux and FreeBSD), but you have to visit a specific website and have an invite link from someone who has an Apple device. Not very open-source if you ask me.
Walled gardens make money, and add frustration.
FaceTime on other platforms is like a year or 2 old feature.
I know. It's actually two years old.