Google, AOL and do no harm
Google, for a couple of weeks now, supports the transfer of messages using AOL protocols ( AIM itself and ICQ itself) using Open AIM for these purposes. This feature is built into the gmail mail service (stand alone GTalk client is still (?) Not supported), works well and stably (at least during testing, which I have been doing for about a week, there are no problems with sending messages to my interlocutors with various ICQ (I didn’t have AIM) wasn’t a customer.)
In this place it was necessary to write “Hurray!”, However, “I don’t want something” ...
Google’s policy, their entire corporate culture, is built on one very simple and understandable slogan: “ Don't Be Evil! ” And this principle, it seems to me, was violated in this case. Support for a private protocol, with a bunch of problems and vague policy on opening the API (yes, there is the already mentioned “Open AIM”, but talk to the developers, find out how “easy” it is to use what AOL offers, and you will understand that without additional cooperation from AOL It seems that nothing like a production-ready product can be obtained) seems to me an extremely unfriendly step towards society. Interesting fact: in the official Gmail blog, Google's PR people wrote (italics is mine):
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But excuse me, what are such open standards ?! After all, Google has its own IM- service based on the open standard XMPP - GTalk. And what is the result, all the assurances of Google's commitment to open standards - idle talk? Why didn't Google use transports? Why, finally, did not persuade AOL to make a s2s-gate, so that everyone who has an XMPP server installed can use this service?
Google, Don't Be Evil!
Original in my blog.
In this place it was necessary to write “Hurray!”, However, “I don’t want something” ...
Google’s policy, their entire corporate culture, is built on one very simple and understandable slogan: “ Don't Be Evil! ” And this principle, it seems to me, was violated in this case. Support for a private protocol, with a bunch of problems and vague policy on opening the API (yes, there is the already mentioned “Open AIM”, but talk to the developers, find out how “easy” it is to use what AOL offers, and you will understand that without additional cooperation from AOL It seems that nothing like a production-ready product can be obtained) seems to me an extremely unfriendly step towards society. Interesting fact: in the official Gmail blog, Google's PR people wrote (italics is mine):
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Google has been committed to standards and interoperation for instant messaging. We jumped at the chance.
But excuse me, what are such open standards ?! After all, Google has its own IM- service based on the open standard XMPP - GTalk. And what is the result, all the assurances of Google's commitment to open standards - idle talk? Why didn't Google use transports? Why, finally, did not persuade AOL to make a s2s-gate, so that everyone who has an XMPP server installed can use this service?
Google, Don't Be Evil!
Original in my blog.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/17299/
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