---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:16:39 +0200 From: Alexandre Aufrere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIH] [KYIM-support] Please Read and Answer !!! (fwd)
> If the protocol was open.. M$FT could integrate it into MSN maybe even > force all MSN users to upgrade to the new protocol... and then do their > usual magic of embrace and extend... and yahoo will end up losing all > their messenger users to MSN! i don't see the Jabber protocol inside MSN, in spite the fact Jabber is open, and widely used in some countries. > I don't see any of the IM guys opening up their protocols... already we > have people like indiatimes piggybacking on the popularity of the other > IMs. Jabber, AIM are opened or partially opened (AIM's TOC). > No matter what Yahoo!'s views/stand may be on open source.. it just > doesn't make good business sense to make your protocol open.. and invite > unnecessary competition.. as Binand pointed out .. over 98% of the users > use windows ... by opening up the protocol.. there will be more damage > done by that 98% userbase shifting to an alternate client than by the ~1% > that use linux. so good business is to be proprietary ? that's how RedHat, SuSE and Co make money ? please... if they don't want to open it 100%, they could do as AOL and create a sub-protocol that they open. or open an old one. they could even request in the user agreement that we provide some links to their system in our client, that's already what KYIM and GTKYahoo are doing for instance. there are 1 000 other ways to do good business and to make money than "control control control". Alex _______________________________________________ KYIM-support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kyim-support _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
