@hexmasteen @fell that is a possibility, but we wouldn't believe in it as it kinda hinges on the CEO's decisions.
As far as we know yes, they aren't profitable currently.
We are also not affiliated but we worked on some matrix software (mostly around E2EE, UX, and spec compliance) & did some work with the specification.
@ity @hexmasteen Instead of the Matrix Foundation, I probably should've included various independent client and server projects. Despite rumours that the specification is often modeled after the implementation in Element/Synapse and the high difficulty of actually making alternative client/server implementations apart from Element/Synapse, it is certainly possible. I think supporting Matrix as a whole benefits the entire open source community and will lead us to a finished protocol. Eventually.