On 9/20/07, Fabio Forno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9/20/07, peterx86 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >From business point of view, does google allow third party developers > > to free use their gtalk server/network to develop value-added > > services? > > > > Example, if we develop online realtime application and hook our > > clients on google network, does google allow us to do this OFFICIALLY? > > I think their statement of openess is clear enough: > > http://code.google.com/apis/talk/open_communications.html > > > Although we can have our own Jabber server, if google officially allow > > such kind of applications, we can hook on their network. > > However this is not a clever idea. If you want to supply value added > services sooner or later it will become necessary to implement some > server components or server hooks, things you can do only if you own > you server. Keep in mind that this still means that gtalk users can > inter-operate with your services, just exploiting server-to-server > communications. >
Fabio is right, as usual. :) You can start out with a small bot or whatever at gmail.com but in general that's not going to scale. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-talk-open" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-talk-open?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
