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. They use XMPP and they allow connections from outside their network. In most ways they are way ahead of the competition. 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.