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That time when Skype almost used XMPP
From: "Janus" <janus@txt.dk>
To: justin@affinix.com
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:15:17 +0100
Subject: PSI
Hi,
My name is Janus Friis. I'm one of the founders of KaZaA and now a
company called Skyper (www.skyper.net). We're looking into IM solutions
for an upcoming product so I thought of PSI. Can we talk?
Janus
- shiggerino 12y agoIt's seems like the recipe for success these days is to take an established, interoperable standard, and do something completely different. SIP, IRC and XMPP is not good enough for Skype, WhatsApp, etc. The Apple iDisk supported WebDAV, and was a failure, while DropBox has become a household name.
- i0nutzb 12y agoConsidering that iDisk didn't had any integration with any OS other than Apple's OSX, I really wonder why didn't had the Dropbox success...
- shiggerino 12y agoBut it did by virtue of the protocols it supported. You could connect over AFP from a Mac and WebDAV from everything else. It didn't require a client, which Dropbox does. It also pre-dated Mac OS X.