If you are not happy with the speed of progress, “just” get a team, fork it, and do it yourself
Never understood this argument. Not everybody can be working on everything, and while Matrix is open source it’s also got an official company maintaining it, so you’d have an uphill fight from the start. The obvious other choice is to use an alternative, which is what the author did by moving back to xmpp.
This exchange shows a clash of philosophies. While you are not wrong exactly, neither is your interlocutor. The “capitalist” mindset (as illustrated by your good-faith comment) is to treat this like shopping - “we’ll just go elsewhere”. But the whole point of FOSS is that we do the work, not “them”. So while it’s true that “not everyone can be working on everything”, ultimately that’s very much our problem and one that only we can solve.
But in this case, we have a choice between two FOSS solutions, so whichever choice we make, we’re still going to be promoting FOSS. It’s not like we’re discussing leaving matrix for discord or WhatsApp.
Never understood this argument. Not everybody can be working on everything, and while Matrix is open source it’s also got an official company maintaining it, so you’d have an uphill fight from the start. The obvious other choice is to use an alternative, which is what the author did by moving back to xmpp.
This exchange shows a clash of philosophies. While you are not wrong exactly, neither is your interlocutor. The “capitalist” mindset (as illustrated by your good-faith comment) is to treat this like shopping - “we’ll just go elsewhere”. But the whole point of FOSS is that we do the work, not “them”. So while it’s true that “not everyone can be working on everything”, ultimately that’s very much our problem and one that only we can solve.
But in this case, we have a choice between two FOSS solutions, so whichever choice we make, we’re still going to be promoting FOSS. It’s not like we’re discussing leaving matrix for discord or WhatsApp.