[NTLUG:Discuss] Terry wants to talk to you using Google Talk

[Gilbert Morrow]

www.linux.org , "Google Windows apps coming to Linux".

On 2/14/06, MadHat Unspecific <madhat at unspecific.com> wrote:
>
> Chris Cox wrote:
> > Chris Albertson wrote:
> >> * Not a Windows user? No problem. You can also connect to the Google
> >> Talk service from any platform using third-party clients
> >> (http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html).
> >>
> >>
> >> Also, they recently built google talk into gmail.
> >
> > I suppose I'm a bit curious.  What does Google talk buy you?
> >
> > Is it more than Just Another IM???
>
> Google talk is Jabber with a few things duct taped on the outside
> (piggybacking the jabber protocol).  Any Jabber client will work with
> it, but if you want to "talk" you have to use the Windows client, last I
> checked.
>
> >
> > I'm not saying I like AIM, MSN, Yahoo... it's just that it
> > seems we don't necesarily need another one... or is there
> > a good reason to use it??
> >
> > I hear that google is trying to bring more of their Windows-only
> > or Windows/Mac-only stuff to Linux now.
> >
> >
> > I'm curious,
> > Chris
> >
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