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I appear in print

By Luke Schierer | October 10, 2007

A few days ago several of us (Pidgin developers) were approached by Ms. Dahna McConnachie asking for an interview for the Australian version of PC World. Apparently I was one of the only developers to respond to her request, and as a result, I have now appeared in print.1 I only spent an hour or so answering her questions, and I did not take the time to read it over as I should have. On the other hand, it appears she did not spend much if any time editing it either. For example, she clearly googled to see what “oscar” is, but came up with a totally wrong acronym. Still, I think it is cool in a way to be interviewed.

(The expansion of “oscar” was removed about 14:43 EDT)

  1. “Luke Schierer discusses Pidgin, Open source and life” PC World (Australia). 2007-10-10 http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1641709366;pp;1;fp;2;fpid;4 ↩

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4 Responses to “I appear in print”

  1. Vadi Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 09:32

    I don’t believe that the stance on somebody wanting a feature, so they have to make it, is exactly right in this video/audio support. I doubt a lot of people who are requesting this (and it’s being requested everywhere now. I’m pretty sure it’s the most wanted thing in Pidgin among normal users) know how to even code. And at the same time I doubt a lot of coding types really feel free need for video/audio.

    :/

  2. Luke Schierer Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 09:47

    Why should “coding types” work on it? Why should I spend my free time working on something I have no use for? What motivation is there? These are honest questions.

  3. Vadi Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 18:51

    If you want your client to succeed, you will. If you don’t, and are just working personal usage, you won’t - which is fine.

    It’s just sad that there is apparently nobody who wants to do the first part and it’s really making the state of Linux IM clients miserable (since Pidgin is the best one in many areas).

  4. rg.viza Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 15:50

    Wow that article is nearly unreadable on firefox…

    As someone who’s been using Pidgin (GAIM before Pidgin) since around 2001, I think your project is better than ever… People that complain about it must have nothing better to do…

    It’s so ubiquitous to me (and the 4 different chat networks I’m connected to) that it actually surprised me when I got a new windows laptop for work and it wasn’t installed yet LOL… I sometimes forget that there are some operating systems that don’t have it in their package set.

    Thank you and your friends for your contributions, some of us appreciate them. You and your peeps are doing a hella great job!

    -Viz

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