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by giancarlostoro 1158 days ago
> As a result, multiple alternative clients for IM and other services flourished.

Feels like a lot of RE'ing has piped down these days. The fact I can download Pidgin but none of the major proprietary clients I'd want to use on it have first party support only as third party plugins says it all imho. I miss the old days of MSN being easy to use on Linux and everyone else having it as well.