On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 21:48:17 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

Why do they bother. Ths *nix community always catches up. Its not like they are making much improvement. If they were smart they would embrace OS and work with us.

it's not the OSS community they're worried about... it's companies like the one that produces Trillian that they're worried about because they are charging money (if you want the 'professional' client or whatever they call it) to make use of a service that doesn't really belong to them.

On Thursday 24 June 2004 06:45, James Ogley wrote:

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Does anyone know if Yahoo has changed something?

Yahoo! changed their protocol.

Gaim 0.79 should come out tomorrow, and should work (via the web interface - which has some limitations)

It's out, now, and it looks to be working okay. I have packages for 8.2 at my site (http://scott.exti.net/files.html). -- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB

James Ogley wrote:

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It's out, now, and it looks to be working okay. I have packages for 8.2 at my site (http://scott.exti.net/files.html).

Yup, working for me on 9.1 - 9.1 packages at www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php

I finally resolved all the missing stuff for loading on 9.0 (libsrvg needed too) and I get the same "Missing Protocol Plugin" error as the last version. What am I missing? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:08, doc wrote:

Jim Sabatke wrote:

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James Ogley wrote:

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It's out, now, and it looks to be working okay. I have packages for 8.2 at my site (http://scott.exti.net/files.html). Yup, working for me on 9.1 - 9.1 packages at www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php I finally resolved all the missing stuff for loading on 9.0 (libsrvg needed too) and I get the same "Missing Protocol Plugin" error as the last version. What am I missing?

I struggled with Gaim and other open source alternatives and finally gave up. I am required to have access to Yahoo's IM at the Office and the natives get real restless when it is down -- not to mention feeding the anti-Linux neanderthals.

Yahoo seems committed to routinely changing their protocols with the consequence of sabotaging all IM apps but their own.

They do have a Unix/Linux version of their app which I have been using for many months without trouble -- albeit a somewhat less robust app than Gaim.

AOL offers it's own AIM client for Linux as well. I think it is a good idea to dl and use their clients, encouraging businesses by using their Linux efforts ought to encourage more businesses to offer their software for Linux. Mike

Hans du Plooy wrote:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/24/128248&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=187&tid=95

Thanks Hans! It just came up on my /. headlines. Ripping good discussion on it too! -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.