[OTR-users] Support for Telepathy/Empathy

[Ananda Samaddar]

Paul Wouters wrote:

> The whole point with OTR is being protocol-agnostic. It's not something
> they can think about. They're too deep down in their RFC's and jabber code
> to realise jabber is about 1% of the IM community out there in real life,
> and so a "protocol hack" like OTR is the only thing that is going to work
> to talk to your real life friends and family that are not CS PHD students.

You're forgetting all the Gmail users who'll also have a Google Talk 
account.  Gtalk uses Jabber, but most people should already know that

> I have no hope that Telepathy will ever get a serious userbase, even if
> Fedora was so stupid as to make it their default IM client.

You're referring to Empathy which uses Telepathy as its backend.  Both 
Fedora and Ubuntu are switching to using Empathy as the default IM 
client, so the situation is much worse than you imagined.

Ananda