Meebo and Adium developers give their reactions to Open AIM 2.0.
Meebo and Adium developers give their reactions to Open AIM 2.0. Link
The initial reaction seems to be that the provided libraries come with restrictions which make them unsuitable for use in most open source clients (like Adium) that use libpurple—a GPL'd multi-client IM library. However, the documentation of the Oscar protocol may open the door to new implementations, and those in turn might finally be able to support audio and video chat. That would certainly be good news for users, as the lack of a video and/or audio solution is the one thing that leaves people torn between using default solutions like iChat and AIM as opposed to multi-platform solutions.
The initial reaction seems to be that the provided libraries come with restrictions which make them unsuitable for use in most open source clients (like Adium) that use libpurple—a GPL'd multi-client IM library. However, the documentation of the Oscar protocol may open the door to new implementations, and those in turn might finally be able to support audio and video chat. That would certainly be good news for users, as the lack of a video and/or audio solution is the one thing that leaves people torn between using default solutions like iChat and AIM as opposed to multi-platform solutions.
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