Hi all, Thanks everyone for the feedback so far. I am personally a bit nuanced on this. Platform policy advocacy is not something I would normally see as core to the mission of the XMPP Standards Foundation. At the same time, it is hard to ignore that Android openness has a real impact on client diversity, interoperability, and how viable XMPP deployments are in practice. Based on the discussion on this list, my sense is that there is a fairly clear member-expressed mandate in favor of signing the letter. Given that, even if it is not something I would strongly push for myself, I would be fine with the XSF signing it in order to reflect that mandate. Kind regards, Guus On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 10:27 PM Thilo Molitor <thilo@eightysoft.de> wrote:
+1 from me, too
Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2026, 20:35:02 CET schrieb Mathieu Pasquet:
Le 25 février 2026 09:17:08 GMT+01:00, Dan Caseley <dan@caseley.me.uk> a écrit :
I don't believe that open source or software freedoms are a core part of the XSF's mission.
That being said, I think this is a good cause, I think there's a positive for the XSF being aligned with all of those other signatories, and I can't see any obvious downsides.
+1
Dan
On Wed, 25 Feb 2026, 08:09 eevvoor via Members, <members@xmpp.org> wrote:
Yes of course, agreeed.
On 2/25/26 6:15 AM, Badri Sunderarajan via Members wrote:
Hello all,
I agree with Travis and Gonzalo—it's quite clear to me that we should sign this.
I could go on a rant about Google but like Gonzalo I don't see any reason to add anything further as the argument is quite self-evident.
Best, Badri
I don't think the XSF has to be aligned on free software or open-source values, as evidenced by the number of members, sponsors, companies and community members that actually work on proprietary software.
What the XSF does, however, is build an open standard in the commons in a way that gives as much freedom of choice as such a standard can give, and give visibility to the numerous options available, including the public federated XMPP network.
In that perspective, google closing down the android ecosystem is directly detrimental to the availability of XMPP clients on android, by parties not vetted by them, or using other distribution mechanisms (not to mention the catastrophic upload/update review process as evidenced by the difficulties for XMPP android apps to state that they do not actually collect email addresses), proprietary or not. This seems in line with the XSF mission, and is not costing us anything that I can think of.
+1 from me
Mathieu