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A comparison of some instant messaging standards (ie. MSN, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, etc.) and why Jabber is about the only one good enough for business:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/08/03/ ... index.html

It's encrypted.

Pidgin splitting into two separate company's highlights one of OSS' problems:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/30/1822237.shtml

Unnecessary project fragmentation.