On 5 Apr 2002 at 10:38, Madhu M. Kurup wrote: > >Some areas of protocol are of immediate interests are authentication, > >text/file transfer and conference. > > And those are precisely the areas at which the officially released client is > most effective at. I cannot see your point!
Point is open them so that everybody can write their client against that protocol. Afterall it's adding to your audience. > >We know that yahoo ships unix clients for RedHat/Debian linux. However people > >prefer some other choices for various reasons. E.g. easy integration with > >window manager of their choice or a simple text based client for quick > >conversation. We ceratinly don't expect yahoo to cater to all possible > >combinations for free of cost. > > But you honestly say the last part statement and not observe the contradiction? Yes. I honestly said that. I said cost. Not money. And I consider any effort involvement is much bigger cost than paying some money. Yahoo can save on that cost. Just open the client protocol. If you find opening protocol a big step, start with ensuring interoperability. Even if entire protocol is not open, that would do as long as it ensures minimum interoperability. That's what I mean. text and file transfer to start with. Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
