Instant messaging sounds like freemason handshake

Did you too notice strange similarity among all instant messaging FOSS projects out there, without exception: they are secretive as fuck?

Whenever issues occur, it is futile to ask for help: none will be provided. They will ask you all sorts of intrusive questions and demand that you post their software's logs to which they dump plain-text passwords, IP addresses, domain names, user names, logins, contact details, yada, yada, yada.

When you challenge them as to the reasons for such prying practices they will circle wagons, push back, and resort to all kinds of social engineering techniques designed to discredit you as a user and your competencies as IT professional.

I've seen this with quite a few: Jitsi, Gajim, Pidgin, Jabberd, OpenFire, Spark, Asterix, Kamaillo and others that I can no longer remember. Never ever I got any resolution to issues with those softwares, no matter how blatantly obvious it was that it was their fault.

Jitsi team, for example, was totally uninterested in their 'thing' freezing solid when keyboard layout was switched as if there was only one language in the universe. Did I mention that they blamed Java? Yes, Emil Ivov had audacity to tell me that Java had a bug with switching layouts even though that nothing written in Java at all on Earth had any issues switching keyboards.

The reason for that is likely that IM projects do not act in good faith. Their goal is to be malwares. Once I mentioned that my IM infrastructure was behind a firewall, and they told me it was the reason it did not work as expected. I lied: there was no firewall. I baited them, and they bought it.

Careful with FOSS: many of them are neither F or OS.

Posted by: LinuxLies at 12:34 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
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