A bit on proprieatary and open IM services
Posted by Saša Bodiroža | Filed under Freedom, Misc, Personal, Thoughts
I have been thinking what would the world be like if things were closed like proprietary instant messaging protocols (for example, Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ, AIM and similar). Here we go…
- If borders were like closed IMs, you wouldn’t be able to cross them.
- If e-mail was like closed IMs, you wouldn’t be able to send it outside your network.
- If roads were like closed IMs, you wouldn’t be able to drive your car on every road.
On the other side, Jabber is open and extensible. That means that you don’t need to be on the same network as your friends in order to IM with them. So, why aren’t people using it? I believe most of them haven’t heard of it at all. And some of them have, but not all of their friends are willing to switch. Wouldn’t it be great if you had to manage only one IM account, instead of 3 or 4? Especially if you’re not using an IM program which supports multiple accounts - in that case you have to run as much programs as you have accounts, just to be able to communicate with all of your friends. What a waste of CPU power and memory.
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