[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 20:00, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Well, yes. But assuming that capacity and bandwidth are infinite -  
> which is the effective assumed case when User Alice makes use of  
> Server X which she does not control nor finance -  what advantage  
> would this solution bring? In other words: There are currently  
> commercial solutions which are successfully negotiating the cost- 
> profit line, charging enough for their software to be able to afford  
> profitably the server resources required. Can we actually do better?

The downside for the user is that the Adium server has to know the  
full unencrypted account information to be able to connect to the  
service. I'd never give that information to any third party.


andy