> > Now you know why closed source software is bad. You are tied to the vendor's > release. You cannot port it to one of the distributions not supported. You > don't know what it is doing to your system. You are forced to wait for the > vendor to release his/her updates taking his/her own sweet time. And so on. > > If yahoo had published its protocol specs, I'm sure every single open source > client out there would have implemented voice/video/whatnot in a much better > way.
Exactly. If you go thru the libyahoo ML archives, then you'll find that ppl have been tryin 2 figure out the voice/video part of the protocol. But development got stalled for sometime, cos yahoo (as seems evident now) was supposedly planning to come up with a new proto (YMSG 5.0?) and lock out the non-yahoo clients. Now if the protocol is open, then all these features can be implemented by the open-source clients, in maybe different ways/styles suitable for diff environments, diff kinda uses etc. -Anks _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
