On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, radical wrote: |---------- 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$FT could integrate it into MSN maybe even |> force all MSN users to upgrade to the new protocol... and then do their |> usual magic of embrace and extend... and yahoo will end up losing all |> their messenger users to MSN! | |i don't see the Jabber protocol inside MSN, in spite the fact Jabber is open, |and widely used in some countries.
Not as popular as Yahoo! is globally... if Jabber were the #1 IM client or even #2 or #3 .. M$FT would have surely done something about it! |> 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... Well... everybody knows that RH SuSE etc don't make money from selling their OS.. but they make their money by charging for services... the day Yahoo! decides to charge for using their servers I'm sure they won't have much objection to allowing a paid subscriber from using a client of his choice. |there are 1 000 other ways to do good business and to make money than |"control control control". The main point being Yahoo! doesn't make any money from Instant Messaging... there are a few ads in their messenger clients... and the opensource ones kill even those revenue streams.(Of course ad revenues are next to zero right now.) Lets not forget that Instant Messengers are very different from e-mail clients... so you don't like pine .. you can use KMail which integrates with your Desktop L&F .. that's because you or your company are paying for your e-mail/bandwidth (there are hardly any free-email services left that offer free service for the whole wide world!) .. so the day all Instant Messengers go paid ... and I read someplace that there was some effort going on to provide intercommunication amongst different IMs ... once that happens.. you'll be able to use any IM client of your choice that according to you doesn't Suck. While I would love to see the yahoo/icq/$IM protocols being opened out... I don't think it makes business sense for a business that is offering the service free to be able to afford to make that choice. Until then it's back to sniffing and reverse engineering for those running creating the opensource clones. Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
