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ICQ competitor initiatives





after ICGnu and a few commandline ICQ-compatable gadgets, looks like
there will be a wave of such products... the advertise intentions
before they have code... for me this spells "we're really pissed at
Mirabilis"

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From: Henrik Abelsson <kain@tpu.org>
Subject: KiT - Communications package similiar to ICQ
Date: Wed,  3 Jun 1998 11:20:45 GMT

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This is the first public release of KiT, Keep in Touch, is 
software like ICQ by Mirabilis.
 
It's purpose is to provide what ICQ does and more, only to every 
platform under the sun and for free. For those who dosen't know 
what ICQ is, it's a program to track your friends when they are 
online and for example send instant messages or chat with them and
more....
 
The we-wish-we-had feature list is:
 
 * Online list, with user to IP resolution.
 * Offline messaging.
 * Contact lists
 * Chatting
 * Filetransfer
 * Shared code editing
 * And more.....
 
We currently have the protocol (and server implementation) needed 
for the first three worked out (that is the client/server protocol). 
The last three are still in the works. Software to show of how 
awesome our ideas are is still in the works, although the servers 
are mostly done we still need to complete the clients.

So, what I'm trying to say, is that both protocol and software 
is still developers only, but we'll be there soon enough.
 
Server platforms
 * Linux (If anyone wants to test to compile the server on 
   another platform, please do)
 * Win32
 
 Client platforms
 * Linux/X
 * Linux/console
 * Win32
 * Java
 
 You can read more or download the latest release of KiT at
 http://tpu.org/kit/
 
- -- 
Henrik Abelsson <kain@tpu.org> | Web: http://www.tpu.org 
  

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