Quoting steadyflux
It's cool. I'm a her. I didn't even notice.
Well, that's convenient. So, sweet tits, you got plans for...?
I kid, but anyway.
Quoting steadyflux
Also to address the open vs non-open source I thought that since people had been mentioning their use of Trillian...it wasn't a big deal to recommend a non-FLOSS alternate that was still free.
That is a discussion I'm trying to
encourage, you have it precisely correct. In fact,
it is not always about recommending FOSS, but
it is always about evangelizing FOSS and trying to bring people to that sometimes bright, sometimes dangerous light.
Quoting steadyflux
One more thing and then I will drop it for good. Honestly, I love Pidgin and have been using gaim since the way back days. Also, the plugins are fun ... coin flipping, dice rolling, history in new chat windows ....
Javol!
Quoting steadyflux
"You sense a disturbance in the force..."
Psychic mode is
crazy. I had to turn it off. It ruins the thought-out nature of instant messaging, and the notion that someone
else could be peeking my text broadcast during mid sentence formation makes my skin crawl. I type, but do not send, some really horrible, awful things. /me grins. You just have to love the Internet; it brings out the best and worst in people.