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Appreciate the info! Matrix does seem like the most likely for us. Sidenote, has Matrix discussed priced offerings? Eg, I'm always concerned about OSS projects

Appreciate the info! Matrix does seem like the most likely for us. Sidenote, has Matrix discussed priced offerings? Eg, I'm always concerned about OSS projects funding. I'd love if Matrix offered a, for example, purchasable hosted option that gave them a funding model beyond donations (which are problematic for obvious reasons). I know this is less of an issue for self hosted FOSS, but still. edit: Interesting, the Riot.im page has a link to Modular.im. I see it's "from the creators of Matrix", does that fund Matrix too? /me continues to dig

Arathorn 7y ago
So while Matrix itself is an open source project backed by a non-profit foundation (https://matrix.org/foundation https://matrix.org/foundation), the team who started Matrix created a startup (New Vector; https://vector.im https://vector.im) in 2017 in order to hire the core developers and ensure we could keep working on it fulltime (and also to dogfood the protocol and ensure that you can build apps on it that people consider useful enough to pay for). The Riot app (https://riot.im https://riot.im) is made by New Vector, and Modular (https://modular.im https://modular.im) is the hosting service New Vector provides as a paid Matrix hosting offering (using Riot as the default client). The proceeds from Modular go directly to paying the Matrix core devs employed by New Vector, and so massively benefit the project. Sorry it's a bit complicated; turns out that funding opensource is not trivial...
- asdkhadsj 7y ago
  > Sorry it's a bit complicated; turns out that funding opensource is not trivial... You explained it well, and you're definitely correct. Appreciate your time! I look forward to being able to buy a tiny (ie 2 or 3 person) slice of Modular.im :)
  - Arathorn 7y ago
    Small (<5 people) deployments are coming in the next few weeks. I'm using mine already (and it's only using 190MB of RAM...)

Arathorn 7y ago

So while Matrix itself is an open source project backed by a non-profit foundation (https://matrix.org/foundation https://matrix.org/foundation), the team who started Matrix created a startup (New Vector; https://vector.im https://vector.im) in 2017 in order to hire the core developers and ensure we could keep working on it fulltime (and also to dogfood the protocol and ensure that you can build apps on it that people consider useful enough to pay for). The Riot app (https://riot.im https://riot.im) is made by New Vector, and Modular (https://modular.im https://modular.im) is the hosting service New Vector provides as a paid Matrix hosting offering (using Riot as the default client). The proceeds from Modular go directly to paying the Matrix core devs employed by New Vector, and so massively benefit the project. Sorry it's a bit complicated; turns out that funding opensource is not trivial...

asdkhadsj 7y ago
> Sorry it's a bit complicated; turns out that funding opensource is not trivial... You explained it well, and you're definitely correct. Appreciate your time! I look forward to being able to buy a tiny (ie 2 or 3 person) slice of Modular.im :)
- Arathorn 7y ago
  Small (<5 people) deployments are coming in the next few weeks. I'm using mine already (and it's only using 190MB of RAM...)