On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 06:42 -0700, robert mcquirt wrote: > you mention the extremely long development time of pidgin is partly > due to the fact that all your developers are not that interested in > features such as video call/teleconferencing, etc. i'd just like to > point out that if you are to be a serious contender in the im market, > their likes/dislikes mean nothing. this is business and if people that > work on the project (even if they're volunteers) cannot meet this > commitment, then you should withdraw your product from the market as > 'unsupportable'. don't get me wrong... i love pidgin. but without > features to help me conduct business on a daily basis, it is > worthless. i hope your developers will realize that if they're going > to compete in a major marketplace, they need to push their personal > preferences aside, because they are producing a product for the > market, not themselves. >
I hope for your sake you someday learn how open source development works. Regards, Stu. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support