On Monday 06 October 2003 11:00 am, Jan Ciger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jos Hulzink wrote: > |>Very soon MSN is no option at all for non Windows users anyway (15th > |>October). > | > | Which is absolutely not true. Microsoft updated their protocol to be more > | secure, and they want to know which clients connect to their servers. > > They > > | never said all other clients will be banned. After the 15th, the Gaim .68 > | will not work anymore for sure, but .70 probably will. > | > | Jos > > You are reading too many press releases. You missed the part, that MS is > now requiring a license for any client connecting to their network. Also > ~ in the name of "better security". That, of course, rules Gaim (and > other free clients) out. The move was widely regarded as an attempt to > close the network to non-MS clients. > > They have the transport working, but if MS decides to enforce the rules, > they will have to remove the support for the protocol.
Or dive for cover and move to PLF :-) > > Regards, > > Jan > > > > - -- > > Jan Ciger > VRlab EPFL Switzerland > GPG public key : http://www.keyserver.net/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQE/gYOon11XseNj94gRAsWtAJwKih/hWnSBuIL2KR6yDLeW4pu69wCgoO0P > diX8JqGexNMqu8Nma8uFddY= > =Epd/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
