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[News] Many Advantages of Free Software Instant Messengers

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Pidgin IM vs MSN Messenger

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| Pidgin is open-source
| 
| An open-source software have many advantages: It’s free most of the time, and 
| its source code is accessible, so you can be sure that no backdoor exists in 
| the program  
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| Pidgin can deal with 16 IM protocol
| 
| Of course, Pidgin works with the MSN protocol, but also on AIM, Bonjour, 
| Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, 
| Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo! Messenger and Zephyr, for a total of 16 IM protocols.  
| 
| Remember some years ago, when you had to download a new client just because 
| the friend you wanted to talk to didn’t use the same protocol as you? With 
| Pidgin, this time’s over.  
| Note, Pidgin can also work with the Skype protocol.
| 
| Pidgin is advertising-free
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| Microsoft makes lots of money with the Windows Live Messenger ads. Pidgin 
| developers aren’t that interested in money: The software is advertising-free, 
| which results in more speed and less memory use.  
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http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/08/pidgin-im-vs-msn-messenger/


Related:

Trojan horse spreads quickly through Microsoft's IM

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| "This is really growing rapidly," said Lichtman. Six hours after it first 
| found the Trojan horse, Aladdin put the total number of assembled bots at 
| about 500; three hours later, that had climbed to several thousand. By 12:30 
| p.m. EST Monday, the botnet had been built out to 11,000 machines.   
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;959081077;fp;4194304;fpid;1


Is Microsoft Missing the IM Interoperability Boat?

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| IBM's Lotus Sametime 7.5 instant messaging customers can now
| communicate with users of AIM and Google Talk, and will be able
| to do so with Yahoo Messenger in a matter of weeks.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/is_microsoft_missing_the_im_interop_boat.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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