Gilles Gravier wrote: > Hi! > > Dennis Clarke wrote: >> I don't know what the fascination is with pidgin but, if you want the >> latest version you *can* get pidgin-2.4.3 from Blastwave. >> >> I have run it today and, yes it works but doesn't do anything >> particularly fascinating. Isn't just IRC enough for people? What is >> this thing with pidgin? Am I missing the point or what? >> >> Dennis >> > When Package-Manager is fast enough to install pidgin from blastwave in > less than 45 minutes (I canceled the "checking for dependencies" after > 45 minutes of waiting) then I will install things from Blastwave... > > Now... why Pidgin. Yes... I think you are missing the point. IRC is on > it's way to join the dodo. Geeks use it. Mostly geeks. Yeah... and some > IT people, who, like me, qualify as geeks-emeritus. > > The thing is that the rest of the world... in particular my friends, but > more importantly my customers, use other kinds of IM tools. MSN, Yahoo, > ICQ, AOL (yech), and now XMPP-based tools (Sun's Instant Messenger > server is XMPP based as well). If you want to talk to the rest of the > world, you need to talk their language. > > Pidgin also supports something called OTR which offers point-to-point > encryption for most IM protocols (except Facebook and IRC, as far as I > know). This is great for business conversations where confidentiality is > a must-have. > > So Pidgin is the way to go. Looking at the future... but implementable > today. > > IRC is enough for geeks. Not for people. Certainly not for my mom and > dad, or my sister (who is a political scientist and has no clue as to > what IRC even stands for - like most people I know).
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