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This is what a aquisition in Open Source land looks like.. :D

by ramboldio 4y ago

phoe-krk 4y ago
Gee, I wonder who acquired Fediverse then - everyone's speaking ActivityPub. /s
- 0des 4y ago
  As someone curious about this comment, can you articulate it in a way that would work in spoken words? the /s throws it off, like when people speak verbal hashtags, and my brain flies into the wall at velocity trying to break it down.
  - opan 4y ago
    No one could/did acquire the Fediverse, there's just a protocol in common between pleroma/mastodon/misskey and so on. The thread's topic is likely similar, Matrix being another protocol used by many things.
  - phoe-krk 4y ago
    The sibling comment described it well. Adding support for an open networking protocol to an existing free software application is, IMO, hardly an acquisition of any sort - not more than e.g. adding support for a new image format to GIMP means that "owners" of the new format now acquire GIMP.
tabbott 4y ago
I don't think this is an acquisition -- Rocket.Chat remains an independent, venture-backed company. Unless I'm missing something hidden here, this announcement is just Rocket.Chat implementing an integration with Matrix, not a change in control of their open source project or associated business.
- Arathorn 4y ago
  Yup, this is not an acquisition of any kind; Rocket.Chat just went and independently added native Matrix interoperability into their core product. It's basically celebrating this PR: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/23688 https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/23688 :) tabbott: we should so do this with Zulip - I think Matrix almost has all the threading primitives needed to bridge successfully now!
  - tabbott 4y ago
    Yeah let's chat about it! We've overdue for catching up in any case :)
    - usr1106 4y ago
      Wasn't the work (not the result) "announced" already during FOSDEM 1.5 years ago? Real world moving more slowly? Just an observation, it happens to all of us...
      - Arathorn 4y ago
        hm, i don’t remember announcing anything on the Matrix side? i might have namedropped that we’d been discussing it as a possibility tho!
        usr1106 4y ago
        I don't remember the wording. But something that there had been discussions and it should not be difficult / much work.
- Rechtsstaat 4y ago
  I think that is what they mean—the 'acquisition' in Open Source land is just the successful integration of one open platform into the other!

This is what a aquisition in Open Source land looks like.. :D

phoe-krk 4y ago

Gee, I wonder who acquired Fediverse then - everyone's speaking ActivityPub. /s

0des 4y ago
As someone curious about this comment, can you articulate it in a way that would work in spoken words? the /s throws it off, like when people speak verbal hashtags, and my brain flies into the wall at velocity trying to break it down.
- opan 4y ago
  No one could/did acquire the Fediverse, there's just a protocol in common between pleroma/mastodon/misskey and so on. The thread's topic is likely similar, Matrix being another protocol used by many things.
- phoe-krk 4y ago
  The sibling comment described it well. Adding support for an open networking protocol to an existing free software application is, IMO, hardly an acquisition of any sort - not more than e.g. adding support for a new image format to GIMP means that "owners" of the new format now acquire GIMP.

tabbott 4y ago

I don't think this is an acquisition -- Rocket.Chat remains an independent, venture-backed company. Unless I'm missing something hidden here, this announcement is just Rocket.Chat implementing an integration with Matrix, not a change in control of their open source project or associated business.

Arathorn 4y ago
Yup, this is not an acquisition of any kind; Rocket.Chat just went and independently added native Matrix interoperability into their core product. It's basically celebrating this PR: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/23688 https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/23688 :) tabbott: we should so do this with Zulip - I think Matrix almost has all the threading primitives needed to bridge successfully now!
- tabbott 4y ago
  Yeah let's chat about it! We've overdue for catching up in any case :)
  - usr1106 4y ago
    Wasn't the work (not the result) "announced" already during FOSDEM 1.5 years ago? Real world moving more slowly? Just an observation, it happens to all of us...
    - Arathorn 4y ago
      hm, i don’t remember announcing anything on the Matrix side? i might have namedropped that we’d been discussing it as a possibility tho!
      - usr1106 4y ago
        I don't remember the wording. But something that there had been discussions and it should not be difficult / much work.
Rechtsstaat 4y ago
I think that is what they mean—the 'acquisition' in Open Source land is just the successful integration of one open platform into the other!