I love open source as much as the next person but it's articles like this that really make me shake my head:
https://opensource.com/article/18/4/pidgin-open-source-replacement-skype-business
This is the OSS version of IBM / Lotus trying to shove Sametime into every business-gap.
And it's not that I think Pidgin / libpurple are necessarily bad for this sort of thing. At $LASTJOB I used Pidgin and XMPP for communication. It worked.
It's the person at the back of the room yelling "LibreOffice" whenever someone mentions putting ink on a page. It's the person yelling "IRC" whenever someone talks about sending characters across the Internet.
It's the person who thinks you're an unfrozen cave-person, have never heard of OSS, and haven't thought hard about your problem.
@craigmaloney It seems like every one of those types of articles that I read features some caveat in the form of... "The only feature that doesn't work yet is [the main feature I wanted]".
In this case, it's screen sharing, which is one of the primary niceties of Skype for Business, and very useful for developers/power users.
I'm all about open source and I make heavy use of it, but it has to be an acceptable substitute that'll do the job before people can adopt it.
