Hi, >Speaking of which, as a KDE Telepathy maintainer, I do see quite a >decline >in our userbase. One of the reasons I get from users is "does not >support >$protocol", where $protocol is often Skype, WhatsApp or Facebook. And >no, it really doesn't matter to them that they can have calls via XMPP, >they >want their Skype contacts cause Skype is The Thing...
Then I can live perfectly well with them going away and using Skype, WhatsApp and $protocol. If they want their proprietary crap, so shall it be, but please do not spoil free software and propagate use of that stuff for the sake of having a few more users. -nik -- PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296 Dominik George · Mobil: +49-151-61623918 Teckids e.V. · FrOSCon e.V. · OpenRheinRuhr e.V. Fellowship of the FSFE · Piratenpartei Deutschland Opencaching Deutschland e.V. · Debian Contributor LPIC-3 Linux Enterprise Professional (Security) _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
