Hi, I sometimes read in posts (like e.g. on http://www.jabbercentral.org/polls/results.php?poll_id=1015995663 ) that Jabber should leave all those proprietaty systems for what they are and focus a lot more on building good server software and good client software.
I can only agree to that! I tried to convince some of my (Windows-) friends to "convert" to Jabber, but its very hard because they expect a client as good as MSN and ICQ (although I personally find ICQ really really overfeatured). They even liked it more when Jabber runs *next to* MSN and ICQ than that Jabber runs MSN/ICQ. What Jabber first needs is being know to a lot of people (developers especially) and once Jabber is known to a lot of people it will be plain sailing. Of course how could Jabber be known to a lot of people? I personally thought: - Linux distributions. E.g. SuSe gives manuals with their sold distribution if they could have a chapter on "Jabber and IM" that would be great. (sorry, I actually took this idea actually from another post, this idea belongs to Dave ;-) ) - Big focus on Windows systems: although I should want it to be different a lot of people use Windows (I sometimes do too). - Magazines (than the Jabber community would has to have a good client, see "[JDEV] How should a good client have to look like"? - Emoticons: see "[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines" - ... : does sb. else have good thoughts? Of course this text is from my point of view, that's why I would like to have yours to... greetz .m. aka (c)obnet --- http://student.rug.ac.be/astrid/Internet/jabber.php _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
