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> Yeah, in 1997 I was using gaim to talk to anyone I wanted on AIM, ICQ, MSN etc and it worked great. But AIM, ICQ, MSN etc weren't open protocols either right
by boramalper 2y ago
> Yeah, in 1997 I was using gaim to talk to anyone I wanted on AIM, ICQ, MSN etc and it worked great.
But AIM, ICQ, MSN etc weren't open protocols either right? It was gaim/others reverse-engineering those protocols, like Pidgin [0] today.
[0] https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/ https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/
- CalRobert 2y agoGood point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol Though the lack of a reverse engineered Slack protocol (remember when they had an IRC bridge?) suggests companies are better at preventing this now. Edit: apparently there's https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple at least!