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Gaim-vv redux (I hate me)

bleeter

11/12/05 01:53 pm

Thanks to some wonderful feedback from the community and some conciliatory tones from a couple of gaim developers, I've reached the conclusion I'm merely hurting the community more by refusing to continue work on voice and video for gaim. This does not mean I believe it's the best platform for delivering third party IM's voice/video, but it's what we've got now, despite other clients promising steps.

So, out of respect for those who've asked me to fork, asked me not to stop working on it, etc. etc., I'm more than happy to swallow my pride, call myself a stupid idiot (although dolt is my word of the week at the moment, thanks to Ms Grossman and Senor Cervantes), and just shut the fuck up and get back to doing what I enjoy, which is aiming to bring voice and video communications to the masses without the noose of a corporate around your necks.

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• chucker23n

  11/12/05 03:20 am (UTC)

  

  "aiming to bring voice and video communications to the masses without the noose of a corporate around your necks."
  
  Meaning, you have forked off Gaim again as to avoid Google's influence?

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  • bleeter

    11/12/05 06:47 am (UTC)

    

    Nah, just merging the gaim-vv into google's -vv (which is really just -v at the moment anyways) in such a way as it'll completely ignore it. Me and the gaim devs can then have the discussion about which API to utilise, etc. It's a horrible horrible way to do things, but it's the only way forward available at the moment.

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• Gaim release notes

  (Anonymous)

  11/12/05 05:45 pm (UTC)

  I clicked on the link to the FC4 release notes for the updated gaim, and the text there just made me laugh...
  
  

  "Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc.,
  Microsoft Corporation, or Yahoo! Inc. or other messaging service
  providers."

  
  
  Looks like they'll have to change that part... ;)

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• Thanks a million!

  (Anonymous)

  11/13/05 11:51 pm (UTC)

  I just want to thank you and every free software developer.
  For all your time and your effort. And for all the bad things that you sometimes have to deal with.
  Thank you very much for keep working to make free software much better and useful for everybody.
  Just that: thank you!!
  

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• Way to go

  (Anonymous)

  11/16/05 03:54 am (UTC)

  Wow! Open Source politics looks pretty intense sometimes. I'm glad you did not lose sight of the big picture and decided to take the path of maximum benefit for everyone.
  
  I look forward to seeing your awesome work take fruit in gaim.

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  • Re: Way to go

    lavenderlost

    11/25/05 02:52 am (UTC)

    And by "maximum benefit for everyone", I would have meant myself :) Thanks for your commitment, etc.

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