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>Pidgin debacle elaborate

• sliverstorm 16y ago
  Basically, the users of Pidgin said "We want X" (I forget what X was). The developers said, well we don't want X and we only really make Pidgin for ourselves. It's just because we were feeling nice that we released it for you guys to use in the first place, we don't owe you anything.
  • acabal 16y ago
    Do you mean when they decided to remove the 'send message' button and people got so mad they forked the project? Or is there another Pidgin debacle that I don't know about yet?
    • sliverstorm 16y ago
      I don't remember. The issue was relatively trivial IIRC, more a matter of tastes- it was just one of those rally points. Like a MacGuffin.