Comment 1505 for bug 1

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 00:25, Faldegast <email address hidden> wrote:
> Personally i think MSN is an important showstopper.
> Linux implementations of MSN lacks important
> futures such as cam support, and there are no good alternative.

I find much more people - even at companies - using Skype over MSN
(anyway, final result is the same now ;-) ).

> The problem with implementing MSN or other proprietary protocols is that
> most of the time is spent in trying to preserve portability. I would
> suggest designing a new MSN-like protocol that is easy to implement. It
> should have open specifications, and it should reuse existing FOSS
> projects as much as possible. Also it should be platform-agnostic, it is
> perhaps more important to have a Windows client then a Linux client.
> Remember that Firefox would never have made the web platform agnostic
> without attracting the Windows users.

Agree.

> First of all we would need a centralized single sign-on service like
> passport, that use e-mail and password to sing in.

There is already OpenID - but I don't use it much anyway - I don't
like the idea bet everything on one horse. When my openid would then
get hacked and somebody changes password I loose everything at once.
I use KeePassX which serves me well to manage different passwords.

I have put together also a few comments to the reasons of not using
Linux, mentioned earlier, who is interested follow this link:
http://it-tactics.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-companies-do-not-use-linux-on.html

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Martin Wildam

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