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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.

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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!

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