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It's permissively licensed FOSS. If the primary maintainers go against the community and can't be reasoned with it will be forked. If a fork doesn't end up havi
by d110af5ccf 5y ago
It's permissively licensed FOSS. If the primary maintainers go against the community and can't be reasoned with it will be forked. If a fork doesn't end up having enough momentum to maintain it then perhaps the original wasn't actually doing such a bad job after all.
This issue is hardly unique to Matrix.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoNot really. You are ignoring the network effect. The vast majority of the matrix network, including the by far the largest node, is using the software developed by Element. If they change something, any competing spec will lose access to federation, and, subsequently, users.