at the temporal coordinates: 12/4/01 10:25 AM, the entity known as Brian at
bmcewen_at_mediaone.net conveyed the following:
>
>> On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 01:49, Mark Rollins wrote:
>
>> That's pretty cool to know, but in typical MacOS fashion, that
>> apparently requires having a proprietary Hotline or Carracho client to
>> access the proprietary servers that use proprietary protocols that are
>> reinventions of existing ones.
>
> - yes, is it a proprietary (not www anyway) "hotline" client needed
Simply because it isn't one of the "big name" protocols does not make it
proprietary. No, it isn't adopted by some byzantine standards process, but
I believe that with a little digging, the protocol *is* available to those
that want it.
> - nothing macOS specific about hotline, I find it likely that hotline was
> out for Windows first, since that's the way the world usually works.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it was Mac first. Some kid (in OZ??) wrote it,
sold out to a corporation and got involved in a big controversy over the
protocol. (I don't know both sides of the issue so I'm not going to try to
explain it.)
- Eric.
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