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Do not be a slave! Change the world, and do not bend over him.

Do not bend under a changeable world
Better he bend under us
One day he will bend under us.

Time Machine - Once the World Bends Under Us

The failure of ICQ triggered a truly universal resonance. And the truth is, after all, communication to a person, as a social animal, is necessary as air.
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The main reason many people don’t switch to other protocols is “and I have all the contacts on ICQ, I can’t part with them.” Indeed, losing friends from some protocol is pretty stupid.

But why not look at the problem from a different angle? After all, someone needs with you, habrauzer, but it will communicate with you. And why should this person not set himself the protocol that you use? Why adapt to others, let the world adapt to you. And if a person doesn’t really like to put a program in order to have a couple of phrases, then maybe email correspondence is enough for you? And the more gray flowers will be in his contact sheet, the faster it will be combed.

Another thing, if a person can not / can not put the program. Then you can help him, teach him. After all, to do a good thing for a friend is always useful and pleasant.

Needless to say, even the developers of alternative clients for ICQ themselves communicate through Jabber and campaign for it . Of course, they were tired of cleaning each time what AOL suddenly got into their heads. They do not want to be slaves. In order to maintain this protocol, one has to stay up at night , so that someone, because of his laziness, can communicate on ICQ.

So Habra man, do not be a slave to a corporation that fools you and treats you like cattle, do not be a slave to the "gray mass", where everything is there and I, be individual, because each person is a person, take the initiative.

UPD: Put the cat, corrected formatting.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/49900/


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