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Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?



On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:24:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
 
> Ones that support open standards are best.  My suggestions:
> 
>       * Any IM server supporting the XMPP instant messaging standard
>         (such as Google Talk, LiveJournal Talk, jabber.org, etc.).
>         There's really no reason or excuse to keeping Yahoo IM, MSN
>         Messenger, AIM and ICQ around now that we have a open, standard
>         IM protocol, regardless of what operating system you use.

Except when none of your friends use it. As far as I can tell Google 
only communicates with AIM which I don't need. And even if Google has 
proven more FLOSS friendly than Yahoo, competition is good!

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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