[webteam] IRC <-> XMPP Comparison

[Sander Devrieze]

2008/3/19, Nicolas Vérité <nicolas.verite at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de> wrote:
>  > Recently I had to face an IRC fan and was thinking about arguments.
>  >  Pro and contra jabber in comparison.
>  >
>  >  As I don't know so much about IRC, I thought it would be a valuable
>  >  resource for other jabber advocates to have on objective and fair list
>  >  that compares jabber and IRC features.
>  >
>  >  I would love to see such information on jabber.org. (maybe with other
>  >  open protocols as SIP, too?)
>
>  It is a very sensitive subject...
>
>  I've been confronted to many IRC fans,
>  and they are much more aggressive than proprio-IM-fans...

Converting IRC users will be a tough job. It's probably better to
focus efforts on converting "owners" of IRC channels to switch to XMPP
by adding sexy features to XMPP software: only fools will stay using
IRC when they know they could triple their communication productivity
by using XMPP.

-- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.