At 03:39 PM 5/10/2001 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>It boggles my mind that there is STILL no multi-platform secure instant
>messaging application that I can install without running an obscure form
>of Linux or installing (at the expense of every working application currently
>on my machine) Python or some crap like that?
>
>All I want is to send secure IMs to my AOL / ICQ contacts. The PGP ICQ
>plugin stinks and crashes half the time.
>
>If I could code I'd just make one myself. But I can't.
>
>How hard can it really be to just write a plug-in to do symmetric key
>encryption
>for AIM / ICQ / Yahoo and use out-of-band methods (PGP?) to exchange
>passwords?
>
>Sheesh.
Seems like a good next step, if you can't code this yourself, is to express
your interest in concrete terms, e.g., money.
How much are you prepared to pay for a set of specifications for this software?
How much are you willing to pay for the copyright to software which meets
the specs? (or the right to license it to the world under the GPL, BSD
license or similar ..)
How much are you willing to pay for a license to use software which meets
the specs?
The world is full of projects that "other people" ought to work on, usually
for free.
