On Friday 25 August 2006 22:29, Google talk wrote:

No. Google's position appears to be "if our Jabber implementation doesn't suit you, go implement Jabber yourself."

http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#client http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#service http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#platform

There's nothing wrong with this approach: Jabber is an open standard and allows for that, and Google Talk (along with every Jabber server) becomes more useful the as Jabber servers and Jabber users increase in numbers. You should be happy Google is being very open about them picking an open standard for their IM system that allows you to set yourself up the way you want and still be able to communicate with Google users.

This isn't to say that development at Google for GT is dead: On the contrary, Google developers are some of the most active Jabber developers.