Hi all, Thanks everyone for the feedback so far. I am personally a bit nuanced on this. Platform policy advocacy is not something I would normally see as core to the mission of the XMPP Standards Foundation. At the same time, it is hard to ignore that Android openness has a real impact on client diversity, interoperability, and how viable XMPP deployments are in practice.
Based on the discussion on this list, my sense is that there is a fairly clear member-expressed mandate in favor of signing the letter. Given that, even if it is not something I would strongly push for myself, I would be fine with the XSF signing it in order to reflect that mandate. Kind regards, Guus On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 10:27 PM Thilo Molitor <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 from me, too > > > Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2026, 20:35:02 CET schrieb Mathieu Pasquet: > > Le 25 février 2026 09:17:08 GMT+01:00, Dan Caseley <[email protected]> > a > écrit : > > >I don't believe that open source or software freedoms are a core part of > > >the XSF's mission. > > > > > >That being said, I think this is a good cause, I think there's a > positive > > >for the XSF being aligned with all of those other signatories, and I > can't > > >see any obvious downsides. > > > > > >+1 > > > > > >Dan > > > > > >On Wed, 25 Feb 2026, 08:09 eevvoor via Members, <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> Yes of course, agreeed. > > >> > > >> On 2/25/26 6:15 AM, Badri Sunderarajan via Members wrote: > > >> > Hello all, > > >> > > > >> > I agree with Travis and Gonzalo—it's quite clear to me that we > should > > >> > sign this. > > >> > > > >> > I could go on a rant about Google but like Gonzalo I don't see any > > >> > reason to add anything further as the argument is quite > self-evident. > > >> > > > >> > Best, > > >> > Badri > > > > I don't think the XSF has to be aligned on free software or open-source > > values, as evidenced by the number of members, sponsors, companies and > > community members that actually work on proprietary software. > > > > What the XSF does, however, is build an open standard in the commons in a > > way that gives as much freedom of choice as such a standard can give, and > > give visibility to the numerous options available, including the public > > federated XMPP network. > > > > In that perspective, google closing down the android ecosystem is > directly > > detrimental to the availability of XMPP clients on android, by parties > not > > vetted by them, or using other distribution mechanisms (not to mention > the > > catastrophic upload/update review process as evidenced by the > difficulties > > for XMPP android apps to state that they do not actually collect email > > addresses), proprietary or not. This seems in line with the XSF mission, > > and is not costing us anything that I can think of. > > > > +1 from me > > > > Mathieu
