That's pretty telling.

"Gentlebeings?"

This is a big nothingburger because it doesn't have a cute name, a marketing campaign, or a silly logo. /s

How do we keep having to have these legal discussions every decade or so?

Yinz shut your boxen down?

Google pulled it off with GChat. All told, those of us who run our own XMPP servers aren't even a rounding error when compared to everybody who uses Google Chat, FB Chat, Slack...

Interoperate with it. Add proprietary extensions faster than other implementations can keep up with (at least two orders of mag). Render software that isn't yours unusable by suddenly cutting over to something else internally; let connection attempts continue for a while to frustrate users while simultaneously releasing your own. Then cut away all points where legacy connection attempts could be done.

I'm not seeing a problem here.

Power, mostly. And testing the strategies they want to use at home to refine and perfect them.

It's not that. It's not getting complacent by eliding the semantics of what you're doing. It's being consciously aware that you're doing something that could possibly fuck stuff up.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

I don't, because stuff like that is a little too touchy to wrap in a cute shell alias. If I'm going to update a box, I'm going to update a box. If I'm going to reboot a machine, I want to be reminded that I'm going to reboot a machine (which in turn is a reminder that there are other people using stuff there and not to fuck their days up without at least a little warning).

Are they going to unfuck the layer management UI?