[JDEV] Jabber Advocacy

[Julian Missig]

Michael Brown wrote:
>>>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
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>>objections. If Jabber cannot win on it's home turf, then it a very serious
>>issue.
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>>Can we get SourceForge to run a Jabber server for all their users (384K).
>>That would be a good way to attract them.
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> 
> That's an excellent suggestion.  Anyone know how we would go about
> suggesting this to the SourceForge guys?
> 

Been there, done that. The whole thing fell through.


Julian
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