[takeda]

They essentially destroyed all competition (AIM, YIM, ICQ, MSN etc), the open source solution that would standardize chat (XMPP) and themselves. Making people just go and use proprietary solution like WhatsUp.

XMPP was so promising.

[Zash]

Psst, hey, XMPP isn't quite dead yet! Some of us never stopped working on it. Come help bring it back into the hype!