How Purism Works Upstream and Gives Back

It’s great they’re being open about their efforts, and I am very excited about my preorder.

However I have to say it feels odd that their chat app is a rebranded Matrix, and that much of the software offering seems to be the same. Why not just use the original?

I don’t mean to be dogmatic. After all, it’s open source, do what you want with it. But it seems superfluous and confusing.