Beeper is joining Automattic
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https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-joining-automattic/
Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.
https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-joining-automattic/
Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.
I hate the euphemism of "joining". It's not a happy union of two groups of like-minded people deciding to pool their resources to better do what they do.
It's one set of suits paying another set of suits a boatload of money to fuck off, then firing half the people who created the value that made it worth to talk about in the first place.
Acquisitions are not a happy sunshine and rainbows thing, it's one corporation devouring another to gorge itself ever bigger.
The thing is that we read so much marketing that it colours our world views too much. Companies only ever do good and happy things.
Apple is a cute little name. If we called them Malus (latin name for genus of apples), we might think differently about them.
::: spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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[CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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Or how about we don't link to marketing articles then??
The real news story for this event is that a big company paid another company a boat load of money to make their app closed source and then launched it while pretending to be a privacy app.
Beeper iirc is the basis for most matrix bridges I use. I‘m not sure this is a good development since I found nothing about their code staying open source which is would be really bad. Another company to try and steal the communities work for profit.
I hope it is going to be ok. Automattic has been involved with matrix before. Time will tell, but I'm more hopeful than afraid.
I hope so too. I bet we‘re gonna see a couple more companies pull that move though since I see a pattern of the world slowly moving towards open source… that makes me vaguely opticmistic. Not because of the companies pulling such moves but a tendency away from proprietary bs.
I like to imagine a world where beeper would've been aquired by Proton instead... a man can dream
This is an ad. The real story is that Automattic paid them a ton of money, closed the source of their app, and launched this shitty inauditable app while pretending to he an open source project
If the encryption happens in the client and the client source isn't available, then all cliams for security are incredible.