On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:56:34PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > It's "Pidgin" and it's non-inclusion in Gnome is irrelevant. Every > single > > distro ships it as the pre-installed IM client for a "desktop" install. > For > > better or worse, it's the application filling the IM space at the moment > and > > I don't mind saying that it does a damn good job at this. Why are we > trying > > to compete with them? > > Ehr, you seem to be arguing that people shouldn't start their own > projects, but rather join an existing one. IMO you cannot dictate what > people do with their time. People will write the same application 5 > different times, then again when some new language comes out. > > Pidgin is just as welcome to propose themselves to be part of the GNOME > project.
Said developer is free to do whatever they want with their time. Said developer has asked for project resources to assist in his effort in a competing with an existing project that gives users exactly what they need, today. Are we going to help Empathy with it's effort to some day offer a point-for-point feature match? That's what we are discussing. I'm saying it's a bad idea right now. Let's revisit it when it actually has the features proposed.
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