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Re:Wire Messaging Application – The Downfalls by zerr on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:56PM (#13279180)
Wire (client) was open sourced after (because?) they failed to gain popularity. They also failed with monetization - even today they are burning investor's money.
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Re:Wire Messaging Application – The Downfalls by Siimteller on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:45PM (#13313415)
Open sourcing the client was always the plan after moving everything to E2EE. Just took a number of months to get the code into a shape that we wanted.

Monetization - we've invested 0 dev time into this so far. So a bit early to claim "they also failed".

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