[clue-tech] CLUE jabber server?

[Jeff Cann]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 4:58 pm, John Fiala wrote:
> On 12/15/05, Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at comcast.net> wrote:
> > In any case, I still find myself annoyed that they are proprietary
> > networks after all these years despite IETF and Jabber's efforts. Imagine
> > if email and the web worked like IM does. Maybe it just takes a while
> > since email had a rocky start too.
>
> I seem to remember when a lot of the email was proprietary, either
> AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve... and eventually market pressure resulted in
> them being opened up to general exchange of email.  Which seems to be
> the way that IM is going, last I looked.

This is exactly what happened.  Peter Saint-Andre discussed it the other night 
at the Jabber session.  He thinks that once enough people demand open IM, the 
commercial providers (like AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) will cave to pressure.  
Like email, this may take several years.

Jeff
-- 
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. 
        - Albert Einstein
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