This is an extremely good point. So many small idealistic companies are bought out, with the "baggage" of a big loan anyone who did want to buy out Signal for profit would have to now pay 100 million dollars.

If I had oodles of money I'd probably do this, "I'm just giving you this money now, but if you got bought up by someone without those same ideals they need to pay up.”

Given it’s the former WhatsApp CEO even more reason to be skeptical.