At this point, I'd like to point out that there is an Open Source
instant messaging system at http://www.jabber.org/
To quote our opening page:
Welcome to Jabber.org! Join us at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention! See
the announcement for details.
Jabber is an instant messaging System, similar to ICQ or AIM, yet far
different. It is open source, absolutely free, simple, fast, extensible,
modularized, cross platform, and created with the future in mind. Jabber has
been designed from the ground up to serve the needs of the end user, satisfy
business demands, and maintain compatibility with other messaging systems.
To explain a bit on the 'compatible' part, Jabber is mostly geared on an
open namespace by using an addressing system simular to email. JID's
(Jabber ID's) are user@server based. It also addresses the idea of a
resource, aka, you may be you at home, or you at work, or heck, you on your
cell phone. I won't go further, becouse this could go on for hours, but we
end up merging the two together, which means [EMAIL PROTECTED]/AIM can map
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim.jabber.org is a 'AIM gateway', which
basically will connect to AIM for you, and serve as a gateway between your
presence within jabber, and your presence within AIM.
We currently have these gateway transports implemented:
yahoo-transport
aim-transport
icq-transport
msn-transport
irc-transport
In addition to these, there are also several utitlity transports that
have been implemented, such as rss-agent (serves up syndicated news to your
client), Stock ticker agents, etc, all in variouse stages of development.
We have API's implemented for Perl, Python, C, C++, and at least one
implementation based on COM for Win32 systems.
If you have any questions, go check out http://docs.jabber.org which
contains many of the user and developer overviews, along with links to the
general XML DTD used within the communication protocol. Our submition to
the IETF is at http://docs.jabber.org/draft-miller-impp-jabber-00.html which
is the proposed protocol for the Internet Messaging and Presence Protocol.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce McCulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Greg Kettmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: AOL Instant Messenger for Linux?
> In addition to the other pointers, check out everybuddy.com
>
> I've just started a new job where IM is the communications facility of
> choice, using M$ and Yahoo IM clients, and one of the other software
> engineers recommended everybuddy as a client for Linux. I don't have
> enough experience to comment on it yet.
>
> --Bruce McCulley
>
> Greg Kettmann wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that I read about an AIM compatible client for Linux.
> > Could someone provide the proper pointers or suggestions? Thanks. GGK
> >
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