“We don’t want to be the outlier that proves the rule, we want to be a new set of rules leading the way to a much more open and diverse tech ecosystem,” Whittaker said, “that isn’t reliant on like five companies and 15 guys and a paradigm that is very, very stale and ultimately not healthy for the world and the future.”It costs around $50 million per year to run Signal, and Whittaker noted at the event that there are no easy answers to finding that type of funding—or more—for projects that need ...