I do stand by my own opinions, and I do try to educate people *when* I think there is some possibility they will listen to me. I have converted people to open source software even by not giving them another choice so that they can see for themselves why this is better.

On the other hand I refuse to do lectures or remote technical support to people I don't care about that I might have to communicate with. Trying to convince somebody to switch must come easy. Not all the people want to tinker with technology and most don't even know what an open standard is.

I understand that it might be less hard than I originally thought to make somebody switch to jabber but it still isn't painless. Skype is there and you just need a username. Whatsapp doesn't even need a username. Messing with server configuration is hard for some people especially if they carry various devices.

Even FSF recognized that making everyone switch is hard and they decided to make a free swf renderer (gnash) and not convince everybody to switch.

While romantic and ultimately Good, converting everybody to jabber today, after Google dropped it, is just a dream. Think of something else.