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[Remko Tronçon]

Hi Mike,

> Why not a commobn gui all three projects use ad the basic code merges
> and then there developers as well, as this will bring more resources
> and power to the team.

Psi's philosophy has always been to be a pure Jabber client. This is a
choice from religious (i.e. we don't want to promote non-open
protocol), legal (you're not allowed to connect to networks like MSN
with something else but MSN), and practical (focusing your client on
one protocol allows you to create a good, focused user interface, with
all the features that the protocol provides, instead of a common
denominator).

The lack of implementations of other protocols is compensated by the
fact that Jabber allows you to connect to other networks server-side
(transports), without having to implement the protocol yourself. So,
if we want Psi to be more MSN-friendly, we should improve the user
interface to make it easier to connect to Jabber transports, which
would make it 'seem' more multi-protocolish, without going against the
philosophy. Such an effort *would* be interesting.

cheers,
Remko