Re: [SLUG] Xchat for windows no longer free!!!

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 16:48:31 EDT


Levi Bard wrote:

>>It also doesn't produce memory leaks because of the Yahoo
>>protocol, like Trillian does, and doesn't crash and stop working every time MSN
>>updates their Messenger protocol (which was almost weekly for a while last year).
>
>
> Actually there were almost daily updates/patches to gaim for a while
> when y! and msn were breaking/updating their protocols so frequently,
> because they did break gaim's compatibility.

I wasn't aware of that. I do know that there have been protocol updates to both
YM and MSNM since I started using Gaim that haven't affected its operation one
whit or, at the very worst, were fixable with patches basically the very moment
that functionality broke, whereas with Trillian I typically had to wait a few days.

I'll have to check out that plug-in of yours. . . .

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Chad Perrin (apotheon .com .net .org)
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