Le lundi 24 septembre 2007 à 00:12 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : > Hi Olav > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 00:15 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:04:43PM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: > > > FWIW, I'm extremely keen on keeping Gossip going. I personally feel that > > > Telepathy is potentially dangerous to our cause. I mean, great, you can > > > voice-video chat with your MSN friends, but you still need an MSN > > > account. One step forward, two steps back. > > > > IMO purposely not supporting something that is in some countries (like > > mine) widely used will ensure your program will not get used. > > > > Make it possible for me to chat. I don't care what method it uses (I > > prefer Jabber, but if someone is on MSN and doesn't want to use e.g. > > Google Talk, so be it). If you want to advocate free services, make the > > free services easier to use and better integrated in the application. > We would, but people seem to be more interested in high-fiving each > other over abstraction layers that de-value underlying protocols. > > > If a program doesn't allow me to chat with my friends (which is what > > I primarily want in an IM app), then how do you expect me ever to > > discover the benefits of a free service? > We have legacy transports that provide a basic level of support, but > it will always be a balancing act, much like the reverse-engineering > work in Telepathy/Farsight. Pissing away free development hours > chasing a moving target wild geese just so that we can pretend to be > compatible is irrefutably masochistic, and I'd really like it to stop. > But when Nokia drives a truck of money up to Collabora's offices, I've > no problem there, they can do what they like.
Nokia's N800 only supports Jabber and SIP, they don't pay for reverse-engineer proprietary protocols AFAIK... telepathy-butterfly and pymsn (MSN support for Telepathy framework) are 100% community work! Xavier Claessens. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
