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broodbucket on Jan 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin

Well it's not like Facebook, Google et al. are making new open standards...that'd definitely be better for users than a battle of walled gardens.

JustSomeNobody on Jan 14, 2016 [–]

No, they're all making their own. So instead of one saying, "hey, let's use something open", now we have X new proprietary protocols instead of X-1.

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