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["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.slackware.]
In alt.os.linux.slackware, Rich Grise dared to utter,
> [crossposted to alt.os.linux.slackware,sci.electronics.design,rec. puzzles
> - please manage crossposted followups intelligently. Thanks.]

How would you like the handled? If you're going to cross-post and ask
people to do so intelligently, you should do so yourself, but setting
the Followup-To: header as I have done here.

> Have any of you encountered this: http://messenger.yahoo.com yet?

Yeah, everyone had heard of Yahoo! Messenger, AOL's AIM, MS's
Messenger. What's the big deal?

> Well, I know anyone using KDE on Slackware will have seen it using
> Konqueror - it probably shows up in all the browsers, but I'm
> terribly, terribly curious as to what shows up on a Doze comp.
> i.e., I'm sure the page is there, but is the heading, "Yahoo!
> Messenger for Unix"?

That's trivial stuff, really. The web server just looks at the headers
your web browser sends to identify what operating system you are
running and sends you to the page with the correct utility to download.
Big whoop. If you're really interested, some web browsers have an
emulation mode where they can mask themselves as another browser or OS.
IIRC, Opera has done this for some time and Firefox has this
functionality as well.

> I've heard of "instant messaging", and have actually "chat"ted
> with someone, but I'd thought that "instant messaging" was in
> the purview of AOL, with MS dabbling

Why don't you STFW? One google for "instant messaging" brings up AOL,
jabber, Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ, etc.

> previous to that, I was using IRC, Internet
> Relay Chat, which I even wonder if there still is such of a
> thing, and if so, I wonder if you can still get live kiddie
> porn on it.

A) Yes, IRC is still around and has never gone anywhere. Why don't you
do your own research before asking an obvious question that makes
yourself look silly?
B) Why do you want live kiddie porn?
C) Why do you admit to wanting live kiddie porn?
D) Don't answer B and C.

> Anyway, it seems that Yahoo has a script that can tie into
> some sort of instant messaging thing, but you have to download
> a precompiled binary

No, no script. It's a binary. Scripts aren't binaries (though
technically I suppose you can argue that every piece of software is a
binary).

> I figured out that _some_body is making some money there, on
> a Linux base, and I don't know how I should feel about it.

What do you mean "don't know how you should feel about it"? OMG, heaven
forbide that some one actually make money, the root of all evil, with
software that runs on a free OS! There's nothing at all wrong with
this and why should you care? If you don't want to use non-free
software, you don't have to. There are plenty of open source IM clients
out there that will do Yahoo! Instant Messanging.

- --
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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