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| May 01, 2003 | Peterson, Eric | COPYRIGHT 2009 Wiesner Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

INITIAL LIGHTBULB: Instant messaging--real-time, chat-style communication over the Internet--started catching on with Generations X and Y in the late 1990s, when the primary software options were incompatible clients from AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo.

To free the code from these corporate clutches, software engineer Jeremie Miller launched an open-source movement called Jabber (not unlike that of the Linux operating system or the Sendmail e-mail platform) from Cascade, Iowa in 1998. Then in his early twenties, Miller catalyzed a community that developed a free, XML-based alternative to the big boys' software. The open-source Jabber is now installed on more than 150,000 …

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