A little off topic, but I find it hilarious when he declares that he will succeed where great men have failed ... because he has hipchat. How is hipchat better

A little off topic, but I find it hilarious when he declares that he will succeed where great men have failed ... because he has hipchat. How is hipchat better than IRC or Jabber? Don't these protocols do the same thing for free (as in freedom and pizza).