[JDEV] Jabber Advocacy

[Michael Brown]

> > I've certainly tried a few times, but we just don't have a good enough
> > handle on why the general population should care about Jabber.
> > Personally, I'm having a hard enough time selling it to fellow open
> > source developers, the same people who refuse to MS Office documents
> > because they're closed! (Yet they're fine using AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo!)
>
> Why ? What do they not understand here. Can we this find out. What are
their
> objections. If Jabber cannot win on it's home turf, then it a very serious
> issue.
>
> Can we get SourceForge to run a Jabber server for all their users (384K).
> That would be a good way to attract them.

That's an excellent suggestion.  Anyone know how we would go about
suggesting this to the SourceForge guys?

Michael
JID zilch at jabber.com