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exactly, and the company behind element already surprisingly seems quite financially successful so I doubt this much money will change things massively.
NEW VECTOR LIMITED is located in LONDON, United Kingdom and is part of the Computer Systems Design and Related Services Industry. NEW VECTOR LIMITED has 16 employees at this location and generates $5.18 million in sales (USD). (Employees figure is estimated, Sales figure is modelled).
This is also all with the support of the core people behind matrix and element, so if anything was nefarious it would be stuffed either way as the team would be corrupt.
I don’t really see how much bad could come of it. Maybe they start trying to hamfist ToS or license changes into the code, but then it’ll be forked.
At worst they do some crazy data harvesting on the main instance, causing an exodus of users onto either self-hosted or other public instances.
exactly, and the company behind element already surprisingly seems quite financially successful so I doubt this much money will change things massively.
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.new_vector_limited.dc4a183b6aa1b44f286393c47faf4410.html
This is also all with the support of the core people behind matrix and element, so if anything was nefarious it would be stuffed either way as the team would be corrupt.
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/07/27/element-raises-30-m-to-boost-matrix