Trillian is pretty cool, but I think it's not
Free. If it's not Free (as in freedom), I think
it pretty radically contradicts the objective.
What about something based on Jabber? Aren't there
Jabber modules for all the commercial systems?

http://www.jabbercentral.org/clients/

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, tickticker wrote:

> I'm not sure about the license, but Trillian
> (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/index.html) is free for personal use.  It's
> a chat program for AOL,Yahoo, icq, MSN and irc all in one.
>
> anthony
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Neighbors" <derek@gnue.org>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 1:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Free Software for m$
>
>
> > > OK, I'll drop that off the list. I think it would be better not to
> require
> > > CygWin at this point
> >
> > We dont want to peddle Cygwin as thats emulating *nix on windows, if we
> > are going to introducte that we need to just install *nix for them. :)
> >
> > I made a 10 minut list, and pt the function to the side.  I also added
> > some stuff I didnt readily know alternatives to but are poppular tasks.
> >
> >
> > =====
> >
> > MultiMedia
> > ----------
> > Audacity (Audio Editing)
> > CDex (CD Audio Stuff)
> > VirtualDub (Movie Editing)
> >
> > Games
> > -----
> > FreeCraft (War Craft Alternative)
> > ZSNES (Super Nintendo Emulator)
> > Mame (Arcade Emulator)
> >
> > Development Tools
> > -----------------
> > wxWindows
> > Python
> > emacs
> > PHP
> > Perl
> >
> >
> > Databases
> > ---------
> > Firebird
> > SAP-DB
> > MySQL
> >
> >
> > Utilities
> > ---------
> > Ghostscript (PDF Generation)
> >
> > Networking
> > ----------
> > TightVNC (Remote Control)
> > Apache (Web Server)
> > PuTTY/WinSCP(FTP/Telnet/SSH/SCP)
> >
> >
> > Productivity
> > ------------
> > OpenOffice (Office tools)
> > Mozilla (browser, email/news, html editor)
> >
> >
> >
> > Other Tasks Need Alternatives For
> > ---------------------------------
> > Unzipping
> > VCD Making
> > ICQ/MSN/AIM client
> > IRC Client (chatzilla maybe?)
> > Paint Shop Pro (can gimp run w/o cygwin)
> >
> >
> > =====
> >
> > -Derek
> >
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