On 3/27/07, Chetan S cshring@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/27/07, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
Well yahoo doesn't change its protocol everyday. Even if it does, it doesn't do it in a manner that older clients will barf on your because they have to take care of users with older clients. I'm using ayttm with the older version of libyahoo2. While the protocol is different and some (very few actually) features are misplaced, it certainly doesn't barf. And mind you that before a couple of months, ayttm wasn't updated for over 2-3 years. Hence, what you're saying is simply FUD.
:D i wish. Ayttm looks butt ugly until the gtk2 port will be out. And again from libyahoo2 site - libyahoo2 does not yet have support for Voice messages, nor for IMvironments.
And in what way does not having imvironments or voice messaging make your client barf? Read my mail carefully. I did mention lack of certain features, many because of the need to maintain uniformity accross protocols.
Again. 10-15 would be a hit. I am referring to no-loss scenario. Why should the cyber cafe owners face a loss for upholding Free ideology ? Also why should he get a new webcam to get it to work with linux ?
Simply stated - Linux ke liye ye naya kharido, woh naya kharido ... why ?
You didn't substantiate that with an example of a webcam that doesn't work with Linux. And let me reiterate, users do not install webcams, they only use them. Cafe owners/admins install webcams.
Fast , Free and works for my hardware is the only criteria for the end-users to use it.
We're talking about cafes and not end users, right?
sigh. who visits cafes ?
Read the subject line and you'll know what this topic is about.
Till the "minor" is not quantified and it does not serve a solution for a definite time frame.
Quantify and then decide whether or not it is feasible.
And games are again a question, no ?
Yes, agreed. And one can charge more for games and buy a windows license for it.
Why you would need to run IE under wine ? Most apps ( non-microsoft ) do not have clause to run only from Windows.
I'm not aware but is there a license problem with the runtime libraries like there is with IE? Also, IE is necessary for some poorly written but necessary websites (some company employee portals for example).