I hope you're right. But it does have to achieve escape velocity. There are lots of interesting open source projects that never quite made it. Jabber/XMPP, for

I hope you're right. But it does have to achieve escape velocity. There are lots of interesting open source projects that never quite made it. Jabber/XMPP, for instance: it seemed like it would inevitably take over messaging for a while in the early 00s...but then a flood of richer chat apps washed it away, and we were stuck in a world of walled gardens again. Jabber never quite died, but it certainly didn't live up to it's full potential.