Comment 3 for bug 1080244

Considering the latest news about the reliability of services rendered by google, ms or apple - this is becoming more interesting than google support.

The situation that google and ms are fighting each other at the expense of openness like a bunch of angry children... who knows how google will terminate all third-party-applications from using "their" calendar in the future?

see "hangouts vs xmpp"
or "google vs eas"
or "ms vs restoftheworld"

I think the only reliable future is in free (opensource) software solutions - and right now there is practially no standalone calendar application that can sync to whatever.