[JDEV] OT: Trillian forums on Jabber...

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Thanks for the clarification, Justin. With all the standardization forming
around Jabber as an open IM protocol, I think the Trillian folks (and many
others) will be coming around to Jabber in 2003. :)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Justin Karneges wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> First, the Trillian developers _are_ interested in Jabber, they just haven't 
> made a public note about it.
> 
> Second, that thread is really old, so the early messages should be 
> disregarded.  I think Jabber's "marketing" has improved over the last year, 
> going away from multi-IM towards open-IM as more and more users have gained a 
> clue.  You have to understand that most users of the Trillian forum saw 
> Jabber as redundant, since they were only thinking about transports.  Read 
> the end of the thread, and you'll see that a lot more people have opened up 
> to Jabber now that they understand what it is.  That thread has to hold some 
> kind of record, too, as it spans over a year.
> 
> I'm supposed to be absent right now, but I felt I had to reply since I'm 
> probably the only one who can save face for these guys.
> 
> Have fun,
> -Justin
> 
> On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:13 am, hhager at orgo.com wrote:
> > This is a fine read over at Trillian. Wtf is their deal?
> >
> > http://www.trillian.cc/forums/showthread.php?s=88747c9447b7f11da69447da6e9e
> >487c&threadid=6777&perpage=30&highlight=support%20jabber%
> > 20future&pagenumber=1
> >
> > Lots of pushback against jabber and obviously
> > the trillian dev's are forcefully ignoring jabber
> > interop.
> 
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