>And yet the furor is not about Microsoft... The furore is partly also about Google moving away from an open protocol to a supposedly secret protocol. If Googl

>And yet the furor is not about Microsoft... The furore is partly also about Google moving away from an open protocol to a supposedly secret protocol. If Google were to publish the new protocol that Hangouts uses all/most of the animosity would vanish. And people would come up with a xmpp to hangouts bridge too. Google has supported and even championed open source initiatives and it has served them well. And imo it will serve them well in the long term if they continue being open, instead of trying to monopolize a segment of the market.