I'm pleasantly surprised by this article. TC generally doesn't write nice things about dreamers. Because we all know that the first public release of Wave is g

I'm pleasantly surprised by this article. TC generally doesn't write nice things about dreamers. Because we all know that the first public release of Wave is going to be fraught with problems. Come on, we all know that. Even Google has acknowledged it with their myriad disclaimers on disclosing it early. But we also know that it has the potential to be really, really cool. Using XMPP (an existing standard) to add federation (which is very hard) and promising to open source their own implementation (not just the specs) shows me that Google is serious about making a better open ecosystem. Wave has the potential to change things like SMTP, FTP, IRC, HTTP/HTML did. Useful, decentralized and open. I'll cut them some slack while they're working the kinks out.