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The messengerfor German armed forces is based on matrix

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bundeswehr-setzt-kue...

> TI-Messenger is gematik’s technical specification for an interoperable secure instant messaging standard. The healthcare industry will be able to build a wide range of apps based on TI-Messenger specifications knowing that, being built on Matrix, all those apps will interoperate.

The ones getting most of the money will probably be third-party developers integrating Matrix into their gematik-certified healthcare products.

Ironically very little of the $ seems to be propagating back to Matrix itself…

It's disappointing that Germany decided to go their own way rather than joining DirectTrust and working on the Trusted Instant Messaging Plus open industry standard. It's specifically designed for healthcare.

https://directtrust.org/standards/tim-plus

It’s definitely unfortunate that there’s a schism between e2ee matrix and e2ee xmpp there.

Looks like it's based on the established and mature standard XMPP. Not disappointing to me.