[webteam] vendor lock-in, what the .... is it?

[Florian Jensen]

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Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Hal Rottenberg wrote:
>> On 9/23/07, Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de> wrote:
>>> Why abandon that information? Nobody is keen on reading through
>>> all descriptions once we may need this info. It is only a
>>> "tick" during the submission process after all. That won't
>>> hurt.
>> Frankly?  Because it looks unprofessional.  I think it is
>> actively a bad thing to have this field.
>
> What's wrong with a field that identifies whether a client can be
> used to connect to any service?
>
> There *are* clients that are locked down to a specific service.
> IMHO they are not of general interest (though they may be of
> interest to users of that service), so perhaps it doesn't make
> sense to list them at jabber.org anyway, because you could argue
> they are not jabber clients in the first place!
>
> Peter
>
I agree. I would say that they shouldn't even be listed.

Florian
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