You don’t need to be involved in an open standard to extend it in your own standard. It really doesn’t matter who made the open standard, it’s open. If Google decides to extend the standard, the old standard will still be around for everybody to use. In the same vein it doesn’t matter who developed XMPP, Google would have extended it one way or another.
EEE is a terrible thing but I don’t see how using an open image standard has anything to do with that
You don’t need to be involved in an open standard to extend it in your own standard. It really doesn’t matter who made the open standard, it’s open. If Google decides to extend the standard, the old standard will still be around for everybody to use. In the same vein it doesn’t matter who developed XMPP, Google would have extended it one way or another.
EEE is a terrible thing but I don’t see how using an open image standard has anything to do with that