[clue-tech] CLUE jabber server?

[Nate Duehr]

Jeff Cann wrote:
> 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.

I'm trying to figure this one out... Unix mail was around long before 
just about anything except maybe early CompuServe and BBS's.

Internet-style e-mail was open first, THEN the proprietary stuff came 
along, THEN it went back to the open standards.

Nate
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