Thursday here, a slow evening. Time for a new poll. This poll might require you to think a bit extra: it asks you to vote not for your favorite application, but which OSS application, in your opinion, has achieved high standards, performance, features and ease of use when compared to the best of breed of the closed source world. Read more for more explanation and voting.
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gaim is clearly the best at doing what it's supposed to - it's the only *cross platform* multi-protocol IM program out there that works. I love it - and it's developed by a small group.
However, as much as I love gaim, the truth is that Evolution got my vote, because it's friggin fantastic. It's clean, attractive, modern looking, fun, usuable, stable, and completely dependable.
If GTK/Windows got rid of some annoying bugs (namely the non-disappearing onmouseover messages), maybe gaim might have scored a little higher in my book.
gaim is clearly the best at doing what it's supposed to - it's the only *cross platform* multi-protocol IM program out there that works. I love it - and it's developed by a small group.
However, as much as I love gaim, the truth is that Evolution got my vote, because it's friggin fantastic. It's clean, attractive, modern looking, fun, usuable, stable, and completely dependable.
If GTK/Windows got rid of some annoying bugs (namely the non-disappearing onmouseover messages), maybe gaim might have scored a little higher in my book.