On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 00:25, Faldegast <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Personally i think MSN is an important showstopper. > Linux implementations of MSN lacks important > futures such as cam support, and there are no good alternative.
I find much more people - even at companies - using Skype over MSN (anyway, final result is the same now ;-) ). > The problem with implementing MSN or other proprietary protocols is that > most of the time is spent in trying to preserve portability. I would > suggest designing a new MSN-like protocol that is easy to implement. It > should have open specifications, and it should reuse existing FOSS > projects as much as possible. Also it should be platform-agnostic, it is > perhaps more important to have a Windows client then a Linux client. > Remember that Firefox would never have made the web platform agnostic > without attracting the Windows users. Agree. > First of all we would need a centralized single sign-on service like > passport, that use e-mail and password to sing in. There is already OpenID - but I don't use it much anyway - I don't like the idea bet everything on one horse. When my openid would then get hacked and somebody changes password I loose everything at once. I use KeePassX which serves me well to manage different passwords. I have put together also a few comments to the reasons of not using Linux, mentioned earlier, who is interested follow this link: http://it-tactics.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-companies-do-not-use-linux-on.html -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
