[Telepathy] future of Telepathy?

[Niklas Andersson]

We are actually adding "Skype is The Thing"-thing... to libpurple and 
SIPE...

Very much appreciated by corporate users that prefers F/OSS to 
proprietary software...

If there is a corporate sponsor interested in doing the same for 
Telepathy we could most likely do that.

;-)

- Niklas

On 28/04/16 14:11, Dominik George wrote:
> 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