On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Jay Patel <rockworl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks pat. i am gonna go with imo.im for a while till i convince my > clients to move on to something else. :P thanks .. >
Convince doesn't work. Especially as clients are happy with something and you don't have real alternative for that. They don't care about your platform and if there's much more people which don't care then you're in trouble. For example I'm forced to Windows after years on OpenBSD, just because there's no way how to use Microsoft Office communicator / Lync on anything except MS/Apple. On Linux somewhat limited experience with web plugin, but it's rather harsh experience and doesn't cope well with meetings, sharing desktop and so on and I don't want Linux anyway. On OpenBSD I'm out completely, because Citrix ICA works just on i386 because of compat_linux, but there's not sndio plugin for Linux yet so no audio, same is true for rdesktop (and similar) and can't virtualize because it's slow in Qemu and sndio is not here as well. KMS with modern vga cards is second problem as well as I'm not able to use second output to monitor. I'm not blaming OpenBSD or its devs at all, they are doing excellent work with limited resources they have and trying to help as I can. (be it translations, help to members on misc, evangelize, pay some t-shirt or other stuff sometimes or donation and so on). For me OpenBSD was and is best operating system even for desktop (for my desktop use including multimedia and other stuff), just my requirements changed at work because of external entities and dualboot is not a way and virtualization options are very limited. Maybe because of moving everything to web there will be soon chance to have OpenBSD as only system (if that will not be done with proprietary plugin :-)). On servers, network gear and such there's hardly something what can compete with OpenBSD in most of areas.
