diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 3f303cf1c..1db1256f4 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "binary"]
-	path = binary
-	url = git://github.com/owncloud/owncloud-client-binary.git
 [submodule "src/3rdparty/libcrashreporter-qt"]
 	path = src/3rdparty/libcrashreporter-qt
 	url = git://github.com/dschmidt/libcrashreporter-qt.git
diff --git a/binary b/binary
deleted file mode 160000
index 09f12de31..000000000
--- a/binary
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 09f12de3122ad1acf735d0e85b77bfba1cac2a29