# work has been funded 100% by one corporation. They're now cutting >60% of that funding.

https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/07/a-call-to-arms-supporting-matrix/

> There’s probably only 50 developers in total working in [general-purpose open communication networks and protocols] as their day job.
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> Meanwhile, there are literally hundreds of thousands of folks trudging away building more and more near-indistinguishable proprietary closed communication systems – trapping users inside ever more silos and fragmenting the basic ability to communicate on the ‘net.

/via https://mastodon.matrix.org/users/matrix/updates/104