-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/22/13 8:52 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: > Google failed to note the correlation of the drop in federated > XMPP connections with the fact that Google Apps (which internally > federates its hosted domains) and Office 365 (which doesn't support > XMPP federation) are gobbling up the market as organizations move > to the cloud. > > Oh well ... it always troubled me that people trusted Google's > support for open protocols as somehow permanent to the nature of > the company.
Yes, it seems to have been a marriage of convenience (since they're also dropping RSS via Google Reader, also cf. the SPDY work to supersede HTTP, etc.). On the other hand, not needing to interoperate with Google Talk might free us to more aggressively work on network security improvements. I say let's take this as an opportunity rather than a disappointment. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRnN4YAAoJEOoGpJErxa2puUcQALGvn1a4gMn1ulD3YS8nN9nm 5s0Z8AjkcaTXAEXJkRPgGh+r1HzpWSwbvSfWKVxDxc4lAkE4wNzPC0cPbG1ENUEw AWtppQwQCqCJadJYO3MSDd3XAM4SU7BLATyq/39pcrajaxM2xvn+qvzMzR9zmWbh CuPynDAca/e9Sto6t7VDgZQ5ozENe0HRNzg3f0QT50aUNXeOwK9XD/QWYU1OHQnR C7gEUcwcfZXb9XhcdQiBl4XqZAzJhrhwByTUDlYmzzlWQfqZlCqIZZ/nmgqtkv0Z GUlRfepycV0aIy1kF8eUpiq/9zJKCGJMLMPrwl/wIBkkvdDDvVf5Y4jJh3k7AjP0 LQLbv6lbDPfh92mnaGqpmqEhSRNIImZ8pDfG+hzYZ6/TTYYnBs+Qqe1m8JtlsLiX 0fQXUUGQdluKzzXAJTqJtlO8LT8IQ6J2XATO61M9Zl/E0+jL6tpBTMvmKiXtpjCl UTHksSYhtr4i0W/3bMjfPb9g9Y/+PHJiMe5yUnZlLg+a+SQZnEuxU+1dFJT0i7eK jU9m4QP/3BOWBdHuuXBJzNWMgzvm/u+sZkdExrga+CnVwLPnRSBuIrWbVCO90oH5 NTopHVN0RxItfdxv0kTfFP33pzKfLKqB5ppaBWMzrkF7rDyds62tKVLb9Aq+Upnc VE78cZjlXMEev7tqGX2u =fb/d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
