The original plan was to sell related software and services to telecoms companies. The parent company that funded development of Matrix already has similar busi

The original plan was to sell related software and services to telecoms companies. The parent company that funded development of Matrix already has similar business relationships with them. Think e.g. a Brazilian phone company. I think the idea is that those phone companies are scared of WhatsApp and Messenger. It's to their advantage to fund an open, federated messenger bus, so their attempts to compete with them work well globally. This B2B market has the virtue that it allows improvement and maintenance of an open, consumer application, without contradicting revenue from business uses. I'm not sure if this is still the ultimate revenue plan, would love to know!