As far as I'm aware, the MSN protocol has been /published/, but in my
eyes that doesn't particularly make it Open.
Julian
On 5 Jun 2004, at 18:00, Mattias Campe wrote:
Hello,
I just read the article that Peter Saint-Andre posted in the
news-mailinglist about GAIM [1], where I read:
<quote>
Gaim's Egan is unapologetic about accessing the public MSN and AOL
networks. "I don't pretend to know anything about law, but I don't
think there's any injustice being done," he told internetnews.com.
"Both services have servers listening for protocols [an open protocol
in MSN's case] on the Internet. We write software to implement these
protocols. Microsoft won't complain if we write a client that talks to
its IIS Web server, but if we write one that talks to its MSN
Messenger servers, we need to be a partner?"
</quote>
It states "an open protocol in MSN's case", but is MSN like completely
open? I thought it was a closed protocol, or isn't it completely
closed? Or did the author meant "an open protocol in Jabbers case".
Please, bring me some clarity :-) ...
Greetings,
Mattias
[1] http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3363481
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