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Friday FOSS fest: Franz, RamBox, Pidgin and more

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The Register; By Liam Proven 		Mail this story
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Most modern chat systems are entirely proprietary: proprietary clients, talking proprietary protocols to proprietary servers. There's no need for this: there are free open standards for one-to-one and one-to-many comms for precisely this sort of system, and some venerable clients are still a lot more capable than you might remember.

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