On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, radical wrote: |Now if the protocol is open, then all these features can be implemented by |the open-source clients, in maybe different ways/styles suitable for diff |environments, diff kinda uses etc.
If the protocol was open.. M$FT could integrate it into MSN maybe even force all MSN users to upgrade to the new protocol... and then do their usual magic of embrace and extend... and yahoo will end up losing all their messenger users to MSN! I don't see any of the IM guys opening up their protocols... already we have people like indiatimes piggybacking on the popularity of the other IMs. No matter what Yahoo!'s views/stand may be on open source.. it just doesn't make good business sense to make your protocol open.. and invite unnecessary competition.. as Binand pointed out .. over 98% of the users use windows ... by opening up the protocol.. there will be more damage done by that 98% userbase shifting to an alternate client than by the ~1% that use linux. Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
