On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:24:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ones that support open standards are best. My suggestions: > > * Any IM server supporting the XMPP instant messaging standard > (such as Google Talk, LiveJournal Talk, jabber.org, etc.). > There's really no reason or excuse to keeping Yahoo IM, MSN > Messenger, AIM and ICQ around now that we have a open, standard > IM protocol, regardless of what operating system you use.
Except when none of your friends use it. As far as I can tell Google only communicates with AIM which I don't need. And even if Google has proven more FLOSS friendly than Yahoo, competition is good! Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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