Difference between revisions of "Philosophy overview"

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Jabber is:
XMPP is:
 
* An open, secure technology for instant messaging and a whole lot more.
* An open, secure technology for instant messaging and a whole lot more.
* A friendly community of end users and developers who value freedom of communication.
* A friendly community of end users and developers who value freedom of communication.
* A decentralized network of IM services in which your messages are not monitored by a big company like AOL, Microsoft, or Yahoo. You can even run your own server!
* A decentralized network of IM services in which your messages are not monitored by a big company like AOL, Microsoft, or Yahoo. You can even run your own server!
 
* A set of stable standards for real-time communications, published by the [http://ietf.org/ IETF] and the [http://xmpp.org/ XMPP Standards Foundation].
* A set of stable standards for real-time communications, published by the IETF and the XMPP Standards Foundation.
 
* Instant messaging the way it was meant to be!
* Instant messaging the way it was meant to be!


In other words, Jabber is NOT a closed, insecure, unfriendly, centralized, proprietary instant messaging service like AIM, ICQ, MSN, or Yahoo.
In other words, XMPP is NOT a closed, insecure, unfriendly, centralized, proprietary instant messaging service like AIM, ICQ, MSN, or Yahoo.


Instead, Jabber gives you true freedom of conversation. So get started today!
Instead, XMPP gives you true freedom of conversation. So [[quickstart|get started]] today!

Latest revision as of 17:13, 24 July 2010

XMPP is:

  • An open, secure technology for instant messaging and a whole lot more.
  • A friendly community of end users and developers who value freedom of communication.
  • A decentralized network of IM services in which your messages are not monitored by a big company like AOL, Microsoft, or Yahoo. You can even run your own server!
  • A set of stable standards for real-time communications, published by the IETF and the XMPP Standards Foundation.
  • Instant messaging the way it was meant to be!

In other words, XMPP is NOT a closed, insecure, unfriendly, centralized, proprietary instant messaging service like AIM, ICQ, MSN, or Yahoo.

Instead, XMPP gives you true freedom of conversation. So get started today!