[jeroenhd]

Matrix, the organisation, takes care of the open source side of things.

BwMessenger is a partnership with "ELEMENT SOFTWARE SARL" (according to https://messenger.bwi.de/datenschutz), the French entity of the commercial side of the people originally behind the open Matrix ecosystem (https://element.io/legal/company-information). I'm not sure why the French entity is doing business with the Germans as Element also has a German entity, but either way the American side is not the one doing the work.

For the American entity, a lot (most?) of the work that's not from unrelated open source contributors seems to be coming in from either EU countries or the UK.

[nxor]

Thank you, it looks like my assumption was wrong

[Arathorn]

Matrix isn’t US at all; it’s a UK Non Profit.

Element is also UK headquartered, albeit with French/German/US subsidiaries when selling to those respective governments. BWI buy via France because when we started working with them we didn’t have a German legal entity yet.

[nxor]

It appears to have been started by Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs

Who perhaps chose the UK in an effort to distance themselves from the US

As I said, I see now my assumption was wrong

[tguvot]

Amdocs is actually Israeli company

[nxor]

- Headquarters in Missouri

- Neither 'Hodgson' or 'Le Pape' sound Israeli

- Likely they went to American universities

etc

[tguvot]

Amdocs is Israeli company. "Headquarters" are in Missouri. go through wiki article.

here is discussion about start of matrix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45495134