On Wed Mar 11 18:00:08 2009, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > > For me the idea here is that jabber.org will be the > community-driven > > "running code" laboratory for the formal "rough consensus" > technologies > > produced by the XMPP Standards Foundation. The goal is to build > an open > > and distributed IM, presence, data, and VoIP service that can > provide a > > realistic alternative to closed systems like Skype. > > We should be prepared to answer the question why Jabber? My sister > has a > Skype account and her friends also have one. Why should she download > this Jabber thing? Don't answer with freedom and open -- that has no > meaning for the average user.
Security, accountability, and transparency. If any of these don't fit well, yet, then we should fix 'em. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[email protected] - xmpp:[email protected] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
