Indeed! Much different leadership back then: Service choice is something you have with email and, for the most part, with your regular phone service today. [..

Indeed! Much different leadership back then: Service choice is something you have with email and, for the most part, with your regular phone service today. [...] Unfortunately, the same is not true with many popular IM and VOIP networks today. [...] The Google Talk network supports open interoperability with hundreds of other communications service providers through a process known as federation.