<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Dominik George <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nik@naturalnet.de" target="_blank">nik@naturalnet.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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>The technical details are largely irrelevant. What matters is that,<br>
>the way things stand today, a GNOME user can't use Whatsapp with<br>
>Telepathy, and nobody is doing the work to change that.<br>
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</span>Which is a good thing.<br>
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Make people want to use free software and services, rather than spoiling free software with crap.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px"><div>It's not a good thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Free software and services unfortunately are not in a position</div><div>to dictate trends to the world, as sad as it may be.</div><div><br></div><div>If significant portion of people are using WhatsApp or WhatEver,</div><div>not supporting it only means being obliterated into irrelevance</div><div>because nobody is going to use something, network or client, where</div><div>they will be all alone, no matter how much better it may really be.</div><div>And there is no way you could convince even 10% of your friends</div><div>to switch to any current free software and service (diaspora, anyone?).</div><div><br></div><div>That's just a reality.</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cheers</span></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer</span></div>
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