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Comment by ramboldio | Hacker News Reader

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

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.

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 :)

tabbott: we should so do this with Zulip - I think Matrix almost has all the threading primitives needed to bridge successfully now!

Yeah let's chat about it! We've overdue for catching up in any case :)

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...

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!

I don't remember the wording. But something that there had been discussions and it should not be difficult / much work.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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