Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone
While this is great and I sincerely congratulate Google for it, I still find the wording slightly disturbing. They say they were going to close down the API because only "a few large developers" were using it. Then that since they've heard from developers about a lot of "use cases" they've decided to change their mind.For me, openness is a relatively unconditional principle. You do it because it is a virtue in and of itself. To hear that we need to spell out specific use cases to justify something being open seems to indicate that Google slightly misses the point. Google shouldn't have to like our reasons for wanting things open. Google should have to justify why they are closed. Indeed, it's in the most unfriendly situations when the openness matters (ie: we want to get our data out of Google and move away from Google services).So while I'm happy to hear this, and I know I'm picking nits here, it still doesn't quite feel like the "old" Google that really made a principle out of these things.