Just read this

While waiting for shane to finish up his SW:BF (aka BF:SW), I read this on Slashdot.

LQ) From a technical and implementation standpoint, which of the supported protocols do you feel is the best? the worst?
RF) From a technical perspective, I like Jabber a lot. It's open source and the protocol is fairly well documented. We don't have to deal with any of the issues related to protocol changes that we have to reverse engineer, etc. As far as the worst, I really don't like the way MSN was designed. I think it's just a bad design in general.

It's what I've said all along. Now here it is straight from a guy who's worked with all of the major IM protocols directly.

Still drinking Jolt, waiting for Shane to give me food.