Wire (client) was open sourced after (because?) they failed to gain popularity. They also failed with monetization - even today they are burning investor's money.
Open sourcing the client was always the plan after moving everything to E2EE. Just took a number of months to get the code into a shape that we wanted.
Monetization - we've invested 0 dev time into this so far. So a bit early to claim "they also failed".
Monetization - we've invested 0 dev time into this so far. So a bit early to claim "they also failed".