On 06/02/2010 01:46 PM, Ethan Blanton wrote:
The bottom line is that Pidgin will quite possibly *never* go six months or more without release. You should be VERY suspicious of any network client which claims it will be -- if nothing else, that means that the authors of the client are unconcerned about possible security vulnerabilities. In the case of Pidgin, we add features and functionality, and fix bugs, more rapidly than that.
And, but I don't think this is as much an issue now as it was a few years back, the 'owner' of the IM service (ie Yahoo, AOL, etc) kept trying to 'lock out' third party apps from being able to communicate using their servers. I remember almost a weekly 'forced' update simply because say Yahoo essentially locked out version say 1.2 by implementing a small change, forcing the developers of the third party IM to figure out what the change is to then patch their program.
Not sure if this happens as much now as it did 'back in the day'. _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
