That's an interesting angle ... maybe we need to work more on getting Jabber to work well with itself, and less on getting Jabber to "emulate" other protocols. Improving client functionality and stability seems to be the single biggest request I get from other programmers who normally communicate on ICQ, for instance. I think we also need to work hard on getting Jabber onto everybody's Linux desktop: RH and Mdk would be the two distros I'd consider most important, due to their volume.
Also, I think we should all list our JIDs as early as possible in our contact info lists. Having our email addresses and Jabber IDs be the same is also good, because it gives us a measurable advantage over all other major IM systems with the exception of MSN (although why anybody would want to use Hotmail over Yahoo! Mail at this point is beyond me) in terms of consistency. (I can tell all my friends, for instance, that they can email or Jab me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or that they can email me an instant message by sending the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not even an MSN user can claim that. Anybody with a Jabber server and an SMTP server (and a piece of a brain) can do exactly the same thing, and anybody running a reasonably recent Linux can setup a Jabber server with no problems whatsoever, even with an almost-unsupported distro (Slackware, in my case) and a tarball source package.) Lastly, of course (how many people have already shouted this?), getting ISPs to setup a tiny Linux box running a Jabber server for their subscribers would be great, and getting users to ask their ISPs to provide Jabber servers may be even better. Clearly, we need to reveal the "secret" of Jabber, because at the moment, Jabber really is one of the best-kept secrets - even in the open source community itself - because people simply don't know what it actually is :-( Dave Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Brown wrote: > > > > "Standard stuff" being "when are you going to have stable and reliable > > gateways to the other IM systems?" > > > > *sigh* > > Yet when /. has an article about Linux, you don't see a whole host of people > complaining that it isn't stable and reliable running Windows > software...weird. Many of the Open Source/Standards advocates seem to miss > the point when talking about Jabber. > > Michael. > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
