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XMPP and specifically ejabberd are what made WhatsApp possible to build with ~50 people at absolutely massive scale (~400M MAU @ 2014 acquisition).


So really it's just about ZuckBook not paying forward via OSS?


Zuck didn't create whatsapp, he only bought it


Go on....




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