One of the things that makes my life easier /is/ the gateways. I work at a pro M$ company so they are Live Messenger through and through: despite my VERY BEST efforts to convert the entire company. Being able to use MSN via Jabber has been a huge help for me, but sometimes I have to log into MSN because of the missing functionality (we really do use the complete MSN feature set).
Some people just can't convert completely. My ZIM$0.01 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sander Devrieze Sent: 09 April 2008 01:15 PM To: Jabber/XMPP software development list Subject: Re: [jdev] My GSoC project : to continue the PyMSNt development. 2008/4/9, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Daniel Henninger wrote: > >> I don't disagree from the client perspective. But my philosophy has > >> always been to make XMPP as great as it can be, then everyone else will > >> eventually decide that they need to use XMPP and not some proprietary > >> garbage. > > > > > I won't get into my diatribe about why I think that will never happen. > > > Aside from saying why are people still using IE6 and even IE5? ;) I've > > always been a big proponent of "let them use what they want, we'll do what > > we can do make the world able to communicate better". That doesn't mean > > trying to tell someone "your client blows, use this instead". Personally I > > see no problem with transport work as part of the GSoC. HOWEVER I do agree > > that, to me, the greater spirit of the XMPP involvement would be to learn > > more about XMPP and improve upon it directly. Can that be done by > improving > > upon existing transports? Maybe. "In an ideal world", it could be > awefully > > nice to see a project in which some sort of XEP gets implemented and > > improved upon, or some sort of new XEP concept gets written. > > Really I have nothing against transports. However, my focus is on making > native XMPP technologies as powerful as possible. Personally I'd rather > support some fun project like MSN-like emoticons over XMPP than just > bridge to a closed technology. But that's just my opinion. :) When you have a larger user base, you get these fun things automatically: end users will pull for these features instead of some instance pushing them. -- Mvg, Sander Devrieze.
