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I thought "free" software with ads went out with Gator
Originally posted by ObscureAngelPT View PostUnfortunaly the free version have some ads, but they are not massive ads, not animated flashs or something, they are very subtle.
I know that linux people will be like, we don't need this, be when its free give it a try and feel the difference
2002-2003. Things like Kazaa were being monetized by bundling with Gator, a notorious piece of adware and spyware. I really thought the death of Gator would be
the end of this, and if not, the end of MS Windows in any machines I have to deal with would be the end of it.
As far as I am concerned, its not free if it is supported by an adserver, and thus compromises the security of your whole system like Gator did. On the other hand, it's probably
a good thing that pre-existing Windows software gets ported to Linux, as that's probably necessary if Windows users are ever to break the habit of using a closed/pay operating
system. Then they can discover all the free and open source software that is truly native to free operating systems, and maybe learn that not having to pay or put up with ads trumps
a clunkier UI or having to render video on the CPU and not the GPU like some pay video editors can do.
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Originally posted by Larian View PostHmm. That's funny. I don't know how lightweight it is, but I have both Empathy and Pidgin doing gtalk and facebook chat. Never tried Skype. Is Skype a deal breaker for you?
Trillian has nothing to offer Linux users much like Nero didn't.
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Originally posted by Kivada View PostSkype chat works on Pidgin via plugin supplied in most distros and available on Pidgin's site.
Trillian has nothing to offer Linux users much like Nero didn't.
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They can take their proprietary software and shove it!
We already have several free software choices for IM, such as Empathy and many others.
With NSA wiretapping communication, you should not trust your communication to be done over proprietary software.
This is a agency that is known to do kidnap people (they call it "extraordinary rendition") and send them to secret prison camps in Egypt for torture.
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Originally posted by philip550c View PostNot exactly. As pointed out in a previous comment they are making this so Linux users can use trillian's decentralized protocol
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Originally posted by ObscureAngelPT View PostIts the only way i have to use skype, gtalk and facebook chat in a very lightweight and costumizable software for free..
GoogleTalk and Facebook use XMPP for chat, Google not only helped popularising XMPP but are even behind the Jingle voice&video extensions.
(Saddly for Facebook XMPP is only a gateway into their internal system. They *DO* transmist all messages to XMPP, in a standard fashion. But they DO NOT transmit voice to XMPP/Jingle. Instead they rely on some sort of skype plugin).
Skype is simply achieved over SkypeAPI
TL;DR skype, gtalk and facebook all work on Pidgin and co. (minus voice for facebook).
Originally posted by Larian View PostHmm. That's funny. I don't know how lightweight it is, but I have both Empathy and Pidgin doing gtalk and facebook chat. Never tried Skype. Is Skype a deal breaker for you?
I've been using it for as long as I've been using Skype itself. It just works.
Originally posted by karashata View PostI have reason to suspect that Skype support won't last very long though. From an email I received from the Skype developers when I emailed them about Skype API issues (messages from Skype often not being sent to IM clients accessing Skype via the API),
(Disclaimer: I've done small patch fixes to said bug circumvention to get it to work with latest Skype from Microsoft)
So unlike Trillian where you might get dropped messages, SkypeAPI on Pidgin (and other purple-based chats) *Just Works*. Even using the latest Skype from Microsoft.
Originally posted by uid313 View PostThey can take their proprietary software and shove it!
We already have several free software choices for IM, such as Empathy and many others.
With NSA wiretapping communication, you should not trust your communication to be done over proprietary software.
That's not possible if one end-point is a closed-source software (you can throw the best mathematically-proven-to-be-unbreakable encryption at it, it won't matter if the end-point has a backdoor).
Pidgin (and most other purple-based chat software) and Empathy are opensourced.
Not only, but you can use the OTR (Off The Record) Standard to encrypt message through Pidgin over any chat system thanks to a plugin from Cypher Punks (available on most distro. Other purple based chats like Adium even have it built-in).
(And if you keep Skype isolated inside a LXC container, you could be more secure against it, too).
Hum, wonder if Jitsi could add a SkypeAPI plug-in complete with LXC isolation and OTR chat encryption ?
Originally posted by philip550c View PostNot exactly. As pointed out in a previous comment they are making this so Linux users can use trillian's decentralized protocol
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