Exodus is a free softwareinstant messagingclient developed by Peter Millard and written in Borland Delphi that can connect to Jabber servers and exchange messages with other Jabber users. Currently, binaries are only available for Microsoft Windows. Exodus was designed as the official successor of the Winjab client, as Winjab was a personal project that was becoming too difficult to maintain. Exodus is licensed under the GNU GPL. This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ... In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. ... Peter G. Millard (born October 7, 1971 in Buffalo, New York, died April 26, 2006) was one of the Jabber protocols creators and designers. ... Delphi is the primary programming language of Borland Delphi. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of operating systems by Microsoft. ... GPL redirects here. ...
The aims of the Exodus project include:
Making the best possible Windows Jabber client that all types of users find "usable," working equally well in both the conventional IM graphical user interface and in a "tabbed" mode;
Creating a Jabber library that will be Delphi native and therefore compilable under Kylix for Linux;
Making the code more maintainable than its predecessor; and
Building a plugin system that allows developers to expand the client.
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The following is a list of instant messaging clients which utilize the Jabber / XMPP protocol. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...
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