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List:       jabber-jdev
Subject:    Re: [jdev] Talk <-> AIM
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () hakubi ! us>
Date:       2005-12-23 1:29:07
Message-ID: 43AB52E3.9050108 () hakubi ! us
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Trejkaz wrote:
> Now, that would be awesome for a number of reasons.  Firstly, nobody would 
> ever need an AIM transport, unless in the future they turned the XMPP 
> interface back off.  But secondly, that would be another 40 million users 
> which we could claim are on the XMPP network, making the XMPP network bigger 
> than every other one. ;-)

Even if AOL does put up an XMPP interface to AIM, it's never going to be
opened up to the public like that.  It'd only be accessible by those
servers that they have approved, which would only be big companies with
closed services they feel threatened by, I suspect.

Anyone who threatens their single-company, monolithic-design model that
AIM is based on, like full XMPP with open server-to-server connections,
can't be welcome to AIM strategists.

- --
Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us

'A republic, if you can keep it.' -- Benjamin Franklin
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