Is QQ proprietary protocol derived from Jabber? I remember there is also a Jabber derived protcol widely deployed in Hungary.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:37:32 +0800, Cathayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, friends, > > there is also a proprietary protocol - QQ, in China but not mentioned > on wikipedia or anywhere else except chinese community. it is very > successful in China and they said they have 350 million registered > users till now. of course, many users have many id. anyway, they are > the top 1 im service in China on a 87million internet users base. > > QQ had been introduced to public on 1997 or so, with a name OpenICQ. > and then, the isreal company ICQ gave them a lawyer letter, then they > changed their name to QQ. Because ICQ and MSN don't have any chinese > version clients for years, and also because china telecom charge > different fees on demestic internet - which had been cheaper - and > "foreign" internet(this policy is over now, but a simular policy is > still exist on CERNET, which owns a big part of chinese internet > users, college students.), QQ got a very success. and now, it has more > features than MSN and many young people stick on it all day. in 2004, > QQ got a income of 400million RMB - about 50million USD. > > but along with it's success, the abuse became more severe. so, many > people switch to MSN. and some linux guys to Jabber. but it is still > the top 1. > > some chinese internet portals have their own IMs, but not very > successful. and tom.comannounced a cooperation with skype last 2 > months. > > > On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:31:44 +0100, Jens Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Thanks for the answers. Good thing I'm not working with MSN Messenger. > > ;o) > > > > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 15:23, Richard Dobson wrote: > > > > There are other open IM protocols designed around SIP. See for example > > > > RFC3428 and SIMPLE > > > > (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/simple-charter.html). > > > > > > > > ICQ and AIM use an AOL proprietary protocol known as OSCAR. > > > > > > > > MSN Messenger uses a proprietary protocol known as MSNP. However, > > > > Windows > > > > Messenger uses SIMPLE. > > > > > > Actually Windows Messenger uses both MSNP and SIMPLE depending on who you > > > are talking to, some older versions of Windows/MSN Messenger can also use > > > RVP which is an old IM protocol used in Exchange 2000. > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > jdev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jdev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > > > > > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
