The Times of India - Saturday 16 June - has an article about Mundu - the first Instant Messenger that can handle "all" the protocols, and allows communication between people on different protocols.
Three things I don't get.
1. If they are the first, then what are everybuddy and jabber? 2. If they handle all the protocols, then why don't they handle jabber, zephyr and irc? 3. I don't understand how they allow communication between people on different protocols. Has anyone used mundu? As far as I can figure out, in order to send a message on MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM or anything for that matter, you must have an account with that service. If you do have an account, then where does the cross protocol communication come up?
If they do in fact support cross protocol communication, then good for them.
Either way, I'm tired of uninformed reporters overlooking open source software once again. What we really need is education of the media. Any ideas?
Philip