Dnia środa, 21 sierpnia 2013 00:21:49 Moon Jones pisze:
On 19.08.2013 23:20, grarpamp wrote:
With the same dev money Google could be funding open source projects like tahoelafs, p2p messaging, etc that put the keys in the hands of the user for easy use. Yet no, they compete against them. They're a business, they've become and catered to more corporate/gov base, that's normal, write around them and claim the user base.
Yet they not only support SMTP and IMAP4, but they give instructions on how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird.
How gracious of them! Ever heard of SPDY? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY Are you willing to bet that this will not become the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish of our time (this time with regard to HTTP)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_extend_extinguish
They use XMPP and they allow connections from outside their network.
Uhm... I'd be very careful with this one: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/2315216/google-drops-xmpp-support http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2013/05/hangouts-wont-hangout-with-other.html
In most ways they are way ahead of the competition.
And most of these cases are a relic of a bygone era when Google actually practised what they preach, because they were the small, geeky underdog pitted against giants like Microsoft. Now they themselves are a giant and are slowly but steadily abandoning their open-source, open-standards ways in favour of walled-gardens, proprietary protocols and such.
To me it sounds pretty much like the GNU/Linux kernel development: make your project popular enough and conform to our coding structure and we're going to include it in the main tree. Fail to do so and you are free to develop patches and loadable modules.
Where did *that* metaphore come from?.. -- Pozdr rysiek