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Tangential, but when we use "free" Matrix, who is paying the bills? And how far can free Matrix reach the online billions?
by aitchnyu 6y ago
Tangential, but when we use "free" Matrix, who is paying the bills? And how far can free Matrix reach the online billions?
- Arathorn 6y agoMatrix is an open network like Email or the Web. So if you use a "free" server, it means you've selected a public server like matrix.org or privacytools.io or whoever. These servers are hosted philanthropically for the benefit of the overall network (e.g. Matrix.org's hosting is paid for via Patreon: http://patreon.com/matrixdotorg http://patreon.com/matrixdotorg). If enough organisations run their own servers and make them available to their users for free, then you could indeed support the online billions. Instead, much like email, we already see a mix of free services (the equivalent of hotmail, gmail etc) and paid services (the equivalent of g-suite, protonmail, etc).