Comment 7 for bug 528489

you might want to consider being respectful and reading the code of conduct on http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct, you are dealing with mostly volunteers who do work for free there, calling other people or they work "retarded", "useless" and "incapable" is not a way to open a constructive dialog with anybody or to be listened. empathy has a schedule aligned on GNOME and Ubuntu, gets lot of bug fixes in every update, has video chat working on jabber and msn out of the box and better integration in the desktop too (allow sharing your desktop over vnc with your contacts in one click for example). You are free to use pidgin if you want though there is no reason to insult other people this way