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Clients that use the same protocol can typically federate and talk to one another. The following table compares general and technical information for cross-platform instant messaging clients in active development, each of which have their own article that provide further information.
Gajim / ɡ ɛ ˈ ʒ iː m / [4] is an instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol which uses the GTK toolkit. The name Gajim is a recursive acronym for Gajim's a jabber instant messenger. Gajim runs on Linux, BSD, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Released under the GPL-3.0-only license, Gajim is free software.
The goal of the Psi project is to create a powerful, yet easy-to-use XMPP client that tries to strictly adhere to the XMPP drafts and XMPP XEPs. This means that in most cases, Psi will not implement a feature unless there is an accepted standard for it in the XMPP community. Doing so ensures that Psi will be compatible, stable, and predictable.
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for many instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to simultaneously log in to various services from a single application, with a single interface for both popular and obsolete protocols (from AIM to Discord), thus avoiding the hassle of ...
The early Jabber community focused on open-source software, mainly the jabberd server, but its major outcome proved to be the development of the XMPP protocol. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formed an XMPP working group in 2002 to formalize the core protocols as an IETF instant messaging and presence technology.
Coccinella (from the Latin "coccinella", ladybird) is a free and open-source cross-platform client for the XMPP/Jabber-instant messaging-protocol. Coccinella Roster & Whiteboard The software is written in the Tcl / Tk language, and it runs under BSD , Linux , Mac OS X , Solaris , Windows and all other platforms that support Tcl/Tk.
ejabberd has a number of notable deployments, IETF Groupchat Service, [7] [8] BBC Radio LiveText, [9] Nokia's Ovi, [10] KDE Talk [11] and one in development at Facebook. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] As of 2009 [update] ejabberd is the most popular server among smaller XMPP-powered sites that register on xmpp.org. [ 14 ]
Blink is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) client distributed under the Blink license (GNU GPLv3 with an exception to permit the inclusion of commercial proprietary modules). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The software is written in Python for macOS 's Cocoa , with a later port to Qt for supporting Microsoft Windows , Linux , AmigaOS .