To be honest, I don’t think Google is that evil (or at least WAS that evil in the 2000’s) and that the people who implemented XMPP in GTalk were honestly willing to push an open internet, with federated standards. That’s what Google was about at the time.
Then Google views changed, and they ended building walled gardens like the others, stopped federating with other XMPP servers and it had negative impacts on XMPP as a whole.
I don’t think this was a plan from Google to “embrace, enhance, extinguish” XMPP.
To be honest, I don’t think Google is that evil (or at least WAS that evil in the 2000’s) and that the people who implemented XMPP in GTalk were honestly willing to push an open internet, with federated standards. That’s what Google was about at the time.
Then Google views changed, and they ended building walled gardens like the others, stopped federating with other XMPP servers and it had negative impacts on XMPP as a whole.
I don’t think this was a plan from Google to “embrace, enhance, extinguish” XMPP.