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Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the breathe-freely dept.

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."

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  1. Independent IM Client Futures by sjvn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

  2. Re:Cooperation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > For those of you who don't RTFA

    There is no FA, jackass

  3. Yahoo plans to release source by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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!

    --
    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam