At Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:54:44 +0200, Guest One wrote: > Reading this http://www.fsf.org/facebook and this > http://stallman.org/facebook.html i have a question for you: > should Parabola remove the Facebook support from applications like Pidgin, > Empathy, Gwibber and from all the others? > maybe should be a good policy.
1. I'm not very familiar with Facebook, or the various chat programs; but AFAIK Pidgin/libpurple's Facebook "support" is just XMPP with a default domain of chat.facebook.com or whatever. 2. We certainly do not encourage the use of Facebook or other non-autonomous network services, but explicitly *removing* support for them is something that we have discussed before, and rejected. 3. Removing support for these non-autonomous network services in all of the various programs would be beyond the resources we have available. 4. Availability of reverse engineered APIs in programs has proven to be a boon for autonomous network services. StatusNet benefited significantly by having a Twitter-compatible API, and the availability of free Twitter clients. 5. As fauno said, if a user wants to chat with people on Facebook, removing support only encourages them to fall into the Javascript trap. 6. Again, Facebook chat is just XMPP, an open protocol. 7. What, are we going to start policing what XMPP servers people connect to? Whitelist the FSF's, and blacklist Facebook's? Elsewhere in the thread, someone mentioned Skype. We do remove Skype support/references because there are no free Skype clients. Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
