Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients

Sparks23 writes "Third-party instant messaging clients have begun to reconnect to Yahoo. While the authorization scheme has not been completely decoded -- expect some bumps -- Gaim and Trillian have both partially restored connectivity. Gaim has the new authorization scheme in CVS and their new 0.70 release, and Cerulean has made a beta patch available for Trillian Pro 2.0; consider both patches 'beta' for the moment."

Comments

Independent IM Client Futures

[sjvn]

Much as I like both GAIM and Trillian, sooner or later, probably by some kind of hard wired authenication/security mechanism, Yahoo, AOL, and Microsft will manage to block these clients often enough and for long enough that they'll lose their utility.

Looking down the road, I think the only hope for open clients are open IM servers, probably, IMHO, based on Jabber.

Steven

Re:Cooperation

[Anonymous Coward]

> For those of you who don't RTFA

There is no FA, jackass

Re:Everyone wants to win

[Honest Man]

Am I? "... interested in talking ..." is a polite way of saying.. 'sure, we'll let them use our protocol.....for a price'....and if they really wanted others running on their protocol they'd have made some effort to post a 'change of protocol' information out so the alternative IM companies didn't have to run sniffers to figure out what changed... If they had, we would not have been in yahoo-limbo, now would we.

Stop believing everything you read. Sheesh.

Yahoo plans to release source

[GillBates0]

Everybody bickering about Yahoo trying to kill of "competing" clients, RTFA, and take note of this:

Yahoo has been trying to help the other Y! messenger clients update their code to work with the new protocol....they're NOT trying to kill them off.

I'm particularly happy to see this move, because Yahoo is about the only big corporation which is working on Unix versions of their client. Yahoo has Solaris, BSD, and Linux versions of the messenger. Moreover, from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ymessenger/ mailing list they're ACTUALLY speculating on releasing their source code for their UNIX clients:

Subject: New poll for ymessenger

Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ymessenger group:

Would you like to have access to Yahoo Messenger Sources?

o Yes
o No
o Why should I?

To vote, please visit the following web page:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ymessenger/surveys ?i d=11283317

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups web site listed above.

Thanks!

Re:Nobody uses Yahoo! Messenger

[pirhana]

I guess you are from US. Yahoo messenger(or even msn) wouldnt be very popular there. But thats not the case in other parts of world. Where I know(India and now Middle east) yahoo and msn are extremely popular and AIM is virtually absent. And regarding your comment on not using yahoo, its a fine idea but not practical IMHO . Because people use it and if you need to chat with them, you have to use it(or something like gaim which speaks that protocol). Also, I dont think yahoo protocol is inferior comparing to msn and all. It has some cool features like offline messaging and "invisible mode" which seems to be absent in others (atleast msn, I dont know about AIM).