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12th May 2007 - Link Blog

Pidgin developers: please get a clue. Lossy abstraction: You can’t tell which protocol people are using, and Pidgin’s developers are ignoring dozens of sensible arguments for why this information matters.

Posted 12th May 2007 at 8:48 pm

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