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Signal is open source. In any of these hypotheticals, it can be forked.

• fsflover 6y ago
  But where will it find the money to support, say, 1 billion people? Telegram already started to show ads.
  • tga_d 6y ago
    Telegram is a product from a for-profit company. Again, Signal is a 501c3 non-profit. It gets its funding from the same sort of places as Wikipedia, the Tor Project, the Internet Archive, etc.: the donation link you're commenting on.
    • fsflover 6y ago
      Do you seriously believe that donations can cover 1 billion of users on Signal? I don’t. Only federation is a sustainable answer (unless maybe you convince governments to fund it).
      • tga_d 6y ago
        >Do you seriously believe that donations can cover 1 billion of users on Signal? Yes. >I don't. Okay, any particular reason? The storage and processing costs are small, you're basically just paying for enough hosting to route the traffic, plus a dozen or so developers. >Only federation is a sustainable answer (unless maybe you convince governments to fund it). The US government does fund it, through several channels (most notable probably being the Open Technology Fund), as did Brian Acton for at least $50 million.