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+title: "Philosophy and Goals" +date: 2019-08-21T23:31:36-04:00 +Pidgin has a number of design goals that we consider our philosophy. For +### Protocol/Service Agnosticism +We believe that once all your accounts are configured in Pidgin, it shouldn't +matter what protocol or service is being used when messaging a contact. The +purpose of using Pidgin is to communicate; the communication itself is more +important than the gritty details of how it's happening. This is exemplified +as "I want to talk to John" versus "I want to talk to John on his XMPP account +at jabber.org." It's our belief that "I want to talk to John" is our users' +expectation, and we aim to make Pidgin that simple. +Pidgin, as a project, has overarching goals for the future of the project: +The main protocol-related goal for the Pidgin project is to remove support for +the proprietary services from the libpurple source code and have them as +separate plugins. This protects the core project from some legal issues and +allows much faster response to protocol-level changes if the owners of a given +service make changes that break the plugin. There is no specific timeline to do +this; we simply aim to do it at some point in the future.