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Thanks for the share. I was involved in this from another direction back then.

You're right, the userbase was the deciding factor, but also in context of the required effort to support the development/maintenance.

To my knowledge WhatsApp did a cost-estimation for FFOS-support back then and concluded that they need to see more than just sales projections to start working...



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