Link: Yahoo caught censoring Open Sauce

[Liam Proven]

On 02/02/2008, Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> When people tell me that they use video instant messaging in Windows, I
> don't even start talking to them about switching to Ubuntu. I know from
> experience that people (understandably) won't give up video IM. It's
> really a killer-app - one that kills efforts to bring people over :-/
>
> I whish that someone with resources would step in and bring us this
> feature...

I have to say, firstly, by way of a disclaimer, that I don't
understand this at all. I very much prefer my chat uncluttered with
custom fonts and colours and themes and skins, I don't want pictures
or sound or video, or multiple clients running. I want one program
with clear text that does everything.

However, audio/video conferencing is something MSN/AIM/Yahoo etc. are
pretty bad at. I've tried it. Trying to get it working between Win2K
and XP is hard enough, or between Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger,
but if you're on a Mac with MSN or Yahoo, forget it; it doesn't work.

In other words, even the official clients are lousy at cross-platform support.

If people want sound and pictures, tell them to use Skype. It works,
it's free (but not Free) and it runs fine on Linux, including Ubuntu.

Why isn't this a solution?

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