[jdev] XMPP Certification Opinion Poll

[Sander Devrieze]

Op vrijdag 13 mei 2005 16:25, schreef Daniel Henninger:
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> As a client developer, I must say that I wouldn't be insulted or find it
> unfair if there was a "chosen" client (that was not mine).  =)  Take gaim
> for example, lots of people live and breath by gaim, but if you go to
> AIM's site you won't find it listed there.  Instead, you'll be pointed a
> the official AIM client.  I know that's a somewhat different scenario, but
> I did want to point out that I don't think it's unfair to pick a
> particular client to be the "preferred" client.  I don't think it's going
> to stop anyone from writing their own.  =D  

You can't compare AIM, a company, with the JSF, an organisation promoting an 
open technology. To me it seems simple:

1) The JSF should promote the clients that support the Jabber/XMPP protocols 
the best. This can be more than one client, and this will be no fixed list.
2) A company providing Jabber services for example can do the same promoting 
strategy for its own Jabber client like AIM does.

> Besides, in a way Jabberd1 and 
> Jabberd2 have the "aura" that they are the preferred servers,

Wasn't ejabberd the preferred server? ;-)

> but I don't 
> think that really upsets the other server writers.  Granted, that's just
> my opinion, I can't speak for anyone else.  =D

-- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.

xmpp:sander at l4l.be ( http://jabber.tk/ )
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