On Friday 05 April 2002 16:16 pm, Kingsly John wrote: > 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!
You mean MSN would do something like "Talk to your Yahoo buddy" in the MSN messenger client? So are you sad that protocols like HTTP, IMAP etc. are open, so that Microsoft could embrace and extend them?? Seems to me the worst argument why a PROTOCOL should be closed. That too with sophisticated network sniffers and reverse engineering tools available. And don't forget that it is Microsoft that develops the OS on which the client implementing this protocol is going to run. Binand _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
