Us oldies being able to parse it, just means that it is now out of date. ;-)

Crinj fr fr.

I agree, that’s why I said “and able”

You can interoperate with googles RCS.
If you are willing and able to enter a partnership like Samsung, you can do it fully (including encryption support etc).

Google are determined to not make it easy, and I agree with you, it appears to be yet another messaging land grab.

Trying to put myself in their headspace for a moment, one justification for making it hard is to stop thousands of apps coming out declaring “full RCS support!” through the APIs, then screwing the pooch (through poor security or deliberate back doors or or or).
Right now Google are desperately attempting to make RCS happen, after almost a decade of trying and failing to make various carriers play ball.
They do not want any bad press about how feature poor/insecure/slow/buggy it is right now.

Only Google can make an RCS app

Yes and no.
You don’t need to make your own OS, but you do need to implement support for the RCS protocol within your app, rather than piggyback on Googles APIs.

I don’t like it, but there’s no legal requirement for google to provide those APIs, like they did with SMS etc.

I don’t think it’s strictly compliant, although they claim to have based it’s syntax on Korn shell, which is the strictest definition of POSIX shells.

You can do pretty much everything in powershell that you can do in something like bash BUT, it will be done slightly differently, so trying to make a script cross compatible is pointless (you might as well just write it natively in powershell etc).

Powershell isn’t inherently bad, unlike bash for instance which just allows piping out text output, Powershell can pass around true .net objects.
But if what you’re looking for is cross OS compatability, you’re pushing shit uphill.

99.9% of the time, I open powershell and just ssh into a “real” linux box.

TNG had some movies (bald guy on the poster) and they were written by people who didn’t like the show for people who didn’t watch the show.

So many of my undefined feelings of sadness about TNG movies just snapped into focus.
I HATE how true this is.