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[2973.68 --> 2975.58] because there's credit card processing fees,
[2975.94 --> 2976.98] there's Patreon's fee,
[2977.08 --> 2978.20] that isn't reflected in that.
[2978.46 --> 2979.32] And then you have about
[2979.32 --> 2981.16] a 5 to 10% credit card failure rate.
[2981.16 --> 2981.72] And then,
[2981.84 --> 2982.64] so that's your,
[2982.82 --> 2983.98] then after you cover all of that,
[2984.04 --> 2984.90] that's the actual revenue.
[2985.02 --> 2985.24] So there,
[2985.66 --> 2986.40] I bet you,
[2986.40 --> 2987.28] legitimately,
[2987.52 --> 2988.64] they're probably making
[2988.64 --> 2990.42] 5,400 a month from Patreon,
[2990.58 --> 2991.06] but that's still
[2991.06 --> 2991.98] a decent amount of money,
[2992.06 --> 2993.44] but it's not going to pay
[2993.44 --> 2994.16] for this ambitious,
[2994.36 --> 2995.86] huge Linux foundation size company.
[2995.86 --> 2997.04] That's going to pay for
[2997.04 --> 2998.82] VPS costs,
[2999.08 --> 2999.36] right?
[2999.54 --> 3001.78] But we need Matrix desperately.
[3002.50 --> 3002.66] You know,
[3002.72 --> 3003.66] as I've been switching,
[3003.74 --> 3003.98] because you know,
[3004.00 --> 3004.90] I'm an Android user now,
[3005.00 --> 3005.40] by the way,
[3005.44 --> 3005.66] guys,
[3005.92 --> 3008.46] as I've been using Android
[3008.46 --> 3010.32] and I've been trying to solve
[3010.32 --> 3011.30] for iMessage,
[3011.30 --> 3014.34] the best solution I came back to
[3014.34 --> 3015.30] was either something like
[3015.30 --> 3016.08] NextCloud Chat,
[3016.18 --> 3017.86] which is very specific to my setup,
[3018.26 --> 3019.24] but honestly,
[3020.18 --> 3020.42] Matrix,
[3020.78 --> 3023.08] with a really friendly
[3023.08 --> 3024.36] front-end client
[3024.36 --> 3025.18] called Fluffy Chat,
[3025.58 --> 3026.94] because I can either
[3026.94 --> 3028.10] just use Matrix.org,
[3028.18 --> 3028.72] I could use the
[3028.72 --> 3029.96] Jupyter Broadcasting System,
[3030.10 --> 3032.04] I could set up a family-specific server,
[3032.66 --> 3034.16] I can connect all of them,
[3034.78 --> 3036.06] Fluffy Chat has the features
[3036.06 --> 3037.48] of a modern chat client
[3037.48 --> 3038.34] like Telegram,
[3038.34 --> 3040.36] it just checks all the boxes
[3040.36 --> 3043.28] and I really want that
[3043.28 --> 3044.02] to be a resource
[3044.02 --> 3044.90] that I can use
[3044.90 --> 3047.28] potentially for the next 15 years.
[3048.12 --> 3048.24] You know,
[3048.26 --> 3049.58] it could be my messaging plumbing
[3049.58 --> 3051.42] for a decade plus
[3051.42 --> 3053.24] if they can make it sustainable,
[3053.48 --> 3054.84] but they've got to also
[3054.84 --> 3057.30] come up with some membership programs
[3057.30 --> 3058.12] that maybe like,
[3058.28 --> 3059.04] as a company,
[3060.18 --> 3061.34] JB could contribute.
[3061.56 --> 3062.90] The other issue though
[3062.90 --> 3063.36] is that
[3063.36 --> 3065.62] it's hard because for us,
[3066.14 --> 3066.98] Matrix is a
[3066.98 --> 3068.62] decent-sized cost center,
[3069.36 --> 3069.50] right,
[3069.56 --> 3070.64] where we spend money
[3070.64 --> 3071.90] just to run Matrix,
[3072.28 --> 3073.20] to manage Matrix,
[3073.36 --> 3074.16] the system it's on
[3074.16 --> 3075.62] is a 96-core system
[3075.62 --> 3076.66] with like
[3076.66 --> 3078.40] hundreds of gigs of RAM,
[3078.52 --> 3078.70] right,
[3078.70 --> 3079.68] it's not a cheap box.
[3080.10 --> 3080.64] And all of that,
[3080.76 --> 3080.88] like,
[3080.96 --> 3081.38] it's all,
[3081.48 --> 3082.22] all of these things
[3082.22 --> 3082.94] are like cost centers
[3082.94 --> 3084.06] for everybody that's doing this,
[3084.10 --> 3084.26] so.
[3084.80 --> 3086.26] If it was an easy problem to solve,
[3086.72 --> 3087.40] we wouldn't be having
[3087.40 --> 3088.08] this conversation.
[3088.62 --> 3089.92] And it's a problem
[3089.92 --> 3090.98] and a conversation
[3090.98 --> 3091.84] that we have time
[3091.84 --> 3092.94] and time and time again
[3092.94 --> 3095.28] with free and open source software.
[3095.28 --> 3096.08] And I think people
[3096.08 --> 3097.86] in the normal world
[3097.86 --> 3098.48] conflate
[3098.48 --> 3099.94] free and open
[3099.94 --> 3103.04] with free and no cost.
[3103.86 --> 3106.24] And that's clearly not true.