It's very ironic that XMPP which was invented as an open standard to combat the various proprietary IM networks only really got traction as part of new equally

It's very ironic that XMPP which was invented as an open standard to combat the various proprietary IM networks only really got traction as part of new equally proprietary IM networks that go great lengths at making their XMPP implementations incompatible to any other XMPP implementation. I'm looking at you, WhatsApp, iMessage and all others.