[DotGNU]Help with Jabber

[Adam Theo]

For those of you who don't read slashdot (I'm one of those, and wouldn't 
know about this news item except it's been all over the Jabber forums 
the past day), someone posted a review of DJ Adam's very in-depth and 
informative "Programming Jabber" book.

Unfortunately, the majority of the "discussion" there has been along the 
lines of "Jabber sux because they can't do AIM right". Us Jabberites 
have been forrowing our brows trying to figure out how to tackle this 
problem of so many people completely mis-understanding Jabber and what 
it's all about.

FYI, Jabber does "do AIM", but the Jabber clients especially don't. The 
clients only speak Jabber, it's the servers that do AIM. So if you can't 
do AIM on one server (such as jabber.org, because AOL is blocking it), 
then use another. You don't even have to move your Jabber account, just 
"browse" over to the other server's Transports.

But despite many attempts by Jabber advocates, the general public just 
still doesn't seem to "get Jabber", and otherwise Free Software 
developers who refuse to use Microsoft Word are perfectly happy using 
AIM/ICQ/Y!/MSN... Why?

I'm hoping that as Free Software developers, and members that are not 
yet fully integrated into the Jabber community (I hope that changes 
soon, I'd like to see more of you folks on the Jabber lists NOW! ;-), 
you can give me your point of view on how Jabber can combat this 
mis-information that seems to be everywhere?

Should Jabber keep promoting itself as an open IM system? Or ditch that 
in favor of general XML routing like what DotGNU is considering using? 
Should we take the message directly to the masses, or to corporate 
business, or to project developers?

The Article:
http://slashdot.org/books/02/04/08/140237.shtml?tid=156
Jabber Homepage:
http://www.jabber.org

Thanks :-)

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