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Realistically, if they started as proprietary in the first place, they wouldn't ever grow to this size (just another closed chat app competing with Discord and
by trickstra 3y ago
Realistically, if they started as proprietary in the first place, they wouldn't ever grow to this size (just another closed chat app competing with Discord and Messenger), so they still benefited from being open-source. Now they are reaping the benefit and monopolizing it.
- Gigachad 3y agoIt’s still open source now. You can pull the repo and do whatever with it. They just won’t merge your changes without a CLA. You are free to fork and contribute there if you want.
- nani8ot 3y agoI understand your point, but there're the independent home server implementations Conduit (Rust) and Construct (C++) so it's not exactly monopolizing. The Matrix spec will continue to be Apache 2.0 licensed.