Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: [centres] Re: Free Libre Open Source Software

[Paul]

Hi,
 
> > I am running 3 UK Online centres in one of the regeneration areas of 
> > Southampton.
> 
> I have been asked to help in a community project that I visited 
> yesterday in Brighton. I noticed that the young people seemed to be 
> prematurely "hooked" on MS's hotmail and messenger. 

Ouch! I still can't understand people using hotmail and MSN when Yahoo
provide the same service, but without the spam and tiedowns.

> While I know hotmail 
> works fine with FLOSS clients, I have not tried using GAIM or similar as 
> I have never felt the desire to use this IM thingie. Hopefully this 
> question is not too far OT, but can anyone confirm that IM clients still 
> work on linux desktops since the changes were made to the messenger 
> protocol?

From memory, the latest version of GAIM is fine with the latest version
of the messenger protocol, but results can be flakey (broken connections
etc - these are on the MSN side, not GAIM).

TTFN

Paul
-- 
One OS to fool them all
One browser to find them
One email client to bring them all
And through security holes, blind them...

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