[JDEV] Leaving proprietary systems for what they are
Mattias Campe
mattias.campe at rug.ac.be
Wed Apr 17 18:57:02 CDT 2002
Hi,
I sometimes read in posts (like e.g. on
http://www.jabbercentral.org/polls/results.php?poll_id=1015995663 ) that
Jabber should leave all those proprietaty systems for what they are
and focus a lot more on building good server software and good client
software.
I can only agree to that! I tried to convince some of my (Windows-)
friends to "convert" to Jabber, but its very hard because they expect a
client as good as MSN and ICQ (although I personally find ICQ really
really overfeatured). They even liked it more when Jabber runs *next to*
MSN and ICQ than that Jabber runs MSN/ICQ.
What Jabber first needs is being know to a lot of people (developers
especially) and once Jabber is known to a lot of people it will be plain
sailing. Of course how could Jabber be known to a lot of people? I
personally thought:
- Linux distributions. E.g. SuSe gives manuals with their sold
distribution if they could have a chapter on "Jabber and IM" that would
be great. (sorry, I actually took this idea actually from another post,
this idea belongs to Dave ;-) )
- Big focus on Windows systems: although I should want it to be
different a lot of people use Windows (I sometimes do too).
- Magazines (than the Jabber community would has to have a good client,
see "[JDEV] How should a good client have to look like"?
- Emoticons: see "[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines"
- ... : does sb. else have good thoughts?
Of course this text is from my point of view, that's why I would like to
have yours to...
greetz
.m.
aka (c)obnet
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