Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:19:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> How long have multiple-IM clients been around now?  6 or 8 years?  Even DOS 
> had more progress made over the same timespan in terms of usability.  I think 
> that says more about the utter lack of effort or the impossibility of a 
> reasonably functional multi-protocol client than it does about DOS.

Ad I see it, the problem with a multiprotocol client isn't with the 
inherent difficulty of settin gon up, but with the way the proprietary
protocols keep changing so that it's a continuous reverse-engineering 
issue.

Multiprotocol between open protocols shouldn't be that hard.

-- hendrik