<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Well, I may be a little too paranoid ... I've seen them buying up deja<br>
news and swallowing the usenet into Google Groups. The usenet is now<br>
quite dead. Something similar happened with XMPP and WhatsApp. So here<br>
I'm a burnt child.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Google groups is still alive, but I use only the email interface for it. I don't see any other use for it. Sometimes we should throw old stuff away. And I say this as a person who just threw away his over ten year old cell phone (didn't work anymore).<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">XMPP is an open protocol, which has non-standard or closed extensions (just as it was designed). Nothing wrong with that, and there is healthy competition in IM apps, so I don't see any problem here.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Jussi<br></div></div>