Well, my issue isn't how the devs choose to spend their time, but the
extremely hostile and dismissive attitude they took towards security and
privacy when they have addressed this bug/feature request/feature.
I haven't paid them, they are not obligated to me, I am disturbed that
Ubuntu would
From comments when this first arose, the empathy developers were not
interested in something that was interoperable with OTR, but might,
someday, be interested in their own unique snowflake of an encryption
system.
I'm not a coder, but OTR is out there, works, and plays well with others.
They
Heck, I cannot even figure out how to have Empathy support multiple
statuses! One status, for all accounts, or perhaps that is just from
the way Ubuntu integrated it. Some accounts I want to be invisible, I
don't want to have a flippant status for work, etc.
Ron
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:25 PM,
As I recall, Empathy feels the world should be fixed. This would be
nice, but it is a long ways off. So, yes, they have switched the
default IM to empathy, which has no real plans to support encryption
in the foreseeable future (xmmp crypto someday?), but Pidgin/OTR will
remain installable. Of
