Comments on: On Jabber

By: josefsen

josefsen — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:22:51 +0000

The thing with giving up on something just because the other camp almost won, reminds me in a way of me young days. When win98beta came out, people were whacking off to the new IE, i ran netscape navigator because i believed in it. When i started to ran Linux, no one on the road where i lived knew what it was, heck, i actually think that except for my close friends no one in the city ever heard of it. When i started to use google, all the hype was on altavista(and it _was_ good at the time) So a friendly advise from one of the underdogs. Go for what you believe in, in a year or 2, perhaps everybody is boykotting google because it just got to big, like alot of reasonable people choose to do with hotmail, where are we going with gmail, yeah it’s cool to have 1gig for mail storage when it’s free, but what about the idea of searching for your mail? Perhaps it really sucks, we just didn’t find out yet …..

That was about my 2 (euro)cents

(by the way – FreeBSD rulez) :-)

By: Madsen

Madsen — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:57:18 +0000

Well, depends on your purpose… If you just want simple one-on-one chat with a friend every once in a while it IS a little much to use IRC, but there’s really no way of comparing the two protocols easilly, because they are so different.

In IRC you don’t have the whole contacts system, which I kind of like by Jabber, but on the other hand I like the “channel” concept of IRC, which is sort of implemented in Jabber, but not as powerful though.

I could probably find more examples, but I reckon you get my point by now…

By: steffie

steffie — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:47:08 +0000

But, tell me, what is the reason to make yet another protocol when IRC works just fine?

By: madsen

madsen — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:50:16 +0000

Ja, det kan der da være noget om, men hvis alle tænker sådan, så hænger vi på MSN forever! Og det gider jeg i hvert fald ikke…

By: harry

harry — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:05:51 +0000

det er meget godt alt det der jabber. men det hjælper ingenting når alle andre ikke også bruger det. jeg har prøvet. og der var det kun dem som jeg alligevel hang ud med på irc som brugte det. så går fidusen lidt af det. msn here we comes ! 8)

By: Madsen

Madsen — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:34:56 +0000

I know, but that doesn’t change the fact that Jabber rocks!

By: stfii

stfii — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:37:17 +0000

that is so last summer ;)