[TriLUG] IM server solution for MS Messenger clients

[Jeff The Riffer]

On Wed, September 5, 2007 9:12 am, Matt Frye wrote:
> I'm just trying to understand the question here...
>> On 9/4/07, Jeff The Riffer <riffer at vaxer.net> wrote:
>> > I was hoping to find an open source IM server that would be compatible
>> > with Microsoft's client.
> Why would you want that?  If you're going to install a server product
> and you think highly enough of open source to use it on the server
> end, why not use an open source client?

Purely political reasons. Without going into detail, I'm trying to circumvent
territorial folks who would throw a screaming fit about changing the end-users
desktop config. Since I control the server (and it's linux, which none of the
Windows engineers comprehend), I can put whatever I want on it without them
being able to forcibly uninstall it.

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