AI Weekly Malaysia

Daniel Gultsch reflects on 25 years of Jabber/XMPP, arguing that digital services should be treated as infrastructure that must remain collectively owned and interoperable through open standards, not controlled by profit-oriented corporations. He draws parallels to physical infrastructure (roads, water, power grids) and warns Europe against simply swapping American tech corporations for European ones.

Why: If you run messaging, chat, or real-time communication features in your product, this is a reminder that XMPP remains a viable open-standard alternative to proprietary platforms—and that vendor lock-in in communication infrastructure is costly to reverse later. Malaysian founders building chat or notification systems should weigh whether self-hostable XMPP-based solutions reduce dependency risk versus defaulting to a single cloud vendor's messaging API.