Re: GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.0: "Mighty Atom"

[Alan Johnson <alan txtger net>]

> You are assuming that everyone already uses IM, which is very far from
> true, most people don't yet. And those that don't is those that we want
> to get to use Jabber over any of the propriatary protocols.

It seems, though, that a person'ss friends would make much more
difference in what IM they use than the Gnome default.  Why not just
leave it open instead of designing around any particular protocol.  I
mean, yes, it'd be perfectly acceptable in my eyes to promote Jabber
from within the Gnome community by using it for IM between developers,
or even having a Gnome Jabber server.  But as far as selecting a default
for users of the desktop, that's really counter-productive to any sort
of openness in my eyes.


Yours,
Alan

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Alan Johnson <alan txtger net>