There, I said it 🙂 Empathy may be heading in the right direction. While that long train gets to its destination, I’m happy with Pidgin. And Skype. More on that later.
If you feel the same (about Pidgin), declare your fanatism in Facebook, become an answer contact for Pidgin in Launchpad, join the Pidgin Rocks team, and share your tips & tricks once in a while.
I love Pidgin too \o/
(although it has its quirks too)
It’s good for what it does, but I need voice and video, and skype is absolutely horrible.
I’d love to know why you’re such Skype fan. As an Free software developer, and Ubuntero, I would think you’d value things like Freedom and privacy – values that are in stark contrast to Skype.
I am not exactly a fan. (Un)fortunately it’s what works best for me and my near family and friends.
Skype to me is JAP (Just Another Protocol), which integrates very nicely with Pidgin, letting me use things like OTR over its network. That and more.
I’ll elaborate later on.