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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by JustSomeNobody on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:25PM (#10902787)
https://xkcd.com/927/
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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by broodbucket on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:53PM (#10903003)
Well it's not like Facebook, Google et al. are making new open standards...that'd definitely be better for users than a battle of walled gardens.
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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by JustSomeNobody on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:12PM (#10903615)
No, they're all making their own. So instead of one saying, "hey, let's use something open", now we have X new proprietary protocols instead of X-1.
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