I... honestly I have no idea why there are players other than IRC and email, with sufficiently fancy clients. Either it's primarily a marketing game, and the p

I... honestly I have no idea why there are players other than IRC and email, with sufficiently fancy clients. Either it's primarily a marketing game, and the people willing to invest in marketing want their own network so that they have more control/can extract more value, or I just don't understand the market.