Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!
Google Talk can to connect to transports (for yahoo, msn, ect) on
other severs.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-05-02-n79.html
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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