[jadmin] Advertising xmpp

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Samuel Penn wrote:

> Microsoft gained ground in the
> IM space initially by bundling it with Windows and prompting
> people to sign up on installation. Has anyone tried talking
> to people like Ubuntu/RedHat etc to do something similar? The
> Linux desktop market isn't large, but it's one where open IM
> standards might be looked on favourably by the companies
> concerned.

In my experience, while a lot of open-source advocates do support open 
standards like XMPP or Ogg or OOXML, many others are perfectly happy to 
use closed protocols and formats like AIM/MSN/Yahoo or MP3 or .doc, as 
long as the source code for their application is free/open.

Linux distros already include multi-protocol IM clients (e.g., on KDE 
there's Kopete, on Ubuntu probably Pidgin) and those clients support 
XMPP, so it's not as if those distros are ignoring Jabber technologies, 
but they don't particularly emphasize such support (e.g., by making it 
easy for a user to get an account at a Jabber service). So maybe that's 
one area we could focus on.

> I've never really used the Mac, so no idea if Apple have their
> own standard.

Apple's iChat client supports both XMPP (they call it "Jabber"!) and AOL 
Instant Messenger.

Peter

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