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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 03:10 PM EDT |
You are being kind of melodramatic with the Google is an
evil hypocrite,
don't you think? What is your agenda here?
Why do you feel compelled to
disparage Google? Is because
you are paid to do so?
Google has given us
all a wealth of open code, from Linux
patches to Android and a thousand things
in between. XMPP is
now overshadowed by new capabilities. Google is giving
something us that amount to open source Skype + whiteboard
over SIP, only I
can't remember the name right now. They
have also released a whole slew of
wonderful new codecs. I
don't know of any company that has ever given us so
much.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 03:39 PM EDT |
The daily "google is evil" post is now a fixture?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 05:29 PM EDT |
Its wrong to say that Google is abandoning XMPP. If you stay
in gtalk then XMPP works. Just opt out from Hangouts.
I can see the reason to drop XMPP. The new Hangouts is more
than instant messaging. Isn't it right to drop something that
does not work any more and is slowing progress? They will
probably release the new protocol when its mature enough.
Google Plus is what it is and if you care to watch Google I/O
videos you will get clear reasons why they do what they do.
Its not evil, they have reasons and they explain them very
carefully. You are free not to agree with those reasons.
Google reader... Rss - I will miss it too. :-(
I don't know what the problem is with Calendar. The api can be
used to implement some standard you need.
Dropping support for SMTP? Did you know that Google released
just lot more new features than it is closing? So the trend is
not in the direction you think.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 03:31 PM EDT |
Think of all those botnets spamming your inbox with "enlarge your favorite
body part" or "my monkey's uncle is trying to get a million dollars
claimed, can you help?".
If e-mail sources were authenticated, and difficult to spoof, it would allow for
major reductions in spam traffic. We already see a trend toward spearphishing
in cybercrime (see Krebs on Security for details)...and if it's hard to make
e-mail look like it came from someone else, that's a major advance.
As for replacing SMTP...Microsoft products will have problems, but noone else,
they will support both SMTP and the new protocol for awhile.
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