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A Little Empathy For Pidgin

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Christopher Smart
Aug 27, 2009

“As listed on the project’s website, the framework has
three main benefits:

“Real-time: Telepathy supports instant messaging (both
one-to-one and in groups), voice calls and video calls; it’s
less suited for store-and-forward applications like email.

“Unified: Many different programs can take advantage of these
communications; Telepathy lets these programs work together.

“Framework: Telepathy allows the different aspects of
communication handling to be divided between different parts of the
system, meaning each part is simple.”

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