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

[Fred James]

Chris Cox wrote:

>Chris Albertson wrote:
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>>* 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).
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>>Also, they recently built google talk into gmail.
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>I suppose I'm a bit curious.  What does Google talk buy you?
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>Is it more than Just Another IM???
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>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??
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>I hear that google is trying to bring more of their Windows-only
>or Windows/Mac-only stuff to Linux now.
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>I'm curious,
>Chris
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One might want to remind that Google, and others, have been compelled, 
or have felt compelled, to comply with governmental request for personal 
data they might track, or store, "for" their service users.