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
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