Google proved its support to the Free and Open Source movement with embracing of Jabber (A open prtocol for Instant Messaging) for its IM and VOIP — Google Talk. Here is the announcement
They stress their support for Open Standards
Open Communications Model
Google believes that users should have a choice in what applications they use for communication. Built to support industry standards, Google Talk enables Google users to connect to the Google Talk service and exchange IMs using any client that does the same, including Trillian, Adium, iChat, GAIM, and Psi.
Another article here
It clearly proves again google’s ability to pioneer in any field they chose. We (me and Swaroop) had a heated debate before about Yahoo opening up its protocol or using Jabber for its IM.
Is Open Source the solution? And the original debate Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox
Now I think Swaroop will have something to say about it.
We had a long flame war last time and I have resumed it after Google talk’s release (See those links to have a look at the flame war we had — There was Sridhar with me for jabber and Sriram for MSN ).
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Et tu, Severe
After reading
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince I was discussing the possibilities now with VR after Dumbledore’s death. It seems really imposible to beat Voledmort now after losing Dumbledore and Snape going to the Dark side. The only one in the order after Dumbledore who could possibly stand up against You-know-who was Snape (Even Dumbledore counted on Snape when he was coming back from the Cave. Now who can we count on in the order to look face to face with Voldemort. Well now the only hope is R.A.B, but we are yet to know who this guy is or what are his credentials.
VR read the book before me and was very enthusiastic before he read the climax but after he climax he was abusing Rowling. The same case was with me also. I was reading it the whole weekend at home with high interrest but when I came back to Bangalore are read the climax I was very disappointed (but not as disappointed as VR because I was prepared to face something very bad after VR’s reaction to it)
So now let us wait for the last book of the series and see what Rowling has got.
Update: Wikipedia gives more about the possibility of R.A.B. It says Regulus Black, Sirus’s brother is a likely to be R.A.B.
Regulus was a Death Eater who tried to disassociate himself from Voldemort. He was killed by Voldemort or on Voldemort’s orders. The note left by R.A.B. addresses Voldemort as “The Dark Lord”, and Death Eaters are the only group who customarily refer to him thus. Regulus’ second initial is unknown. However, he had a rich uncle whose first name was Alphard.
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