kakao talk

[David Woolley]

Cavan wrote:
>  
> could you please help me, i was wondering if you can get kakao talk for 
> pidgin. i read on a web site that you can but i have no idea how to go 
> about it. if you could help it would me great. Thanks

The only references I can find with both Pidgin and KakaoTalk seem to be 
about Pidgin being an alternative IM client, not an alternative 
KakaoTalk client.  Some of those seem to confuse clients and services.

I cannot find any indication that there is a published, or even reverse 
engineered, protocol specification for KakaoTalk, nor any to Windows 
libraries to access it (although those would probably not be supported 
in the official Pidgin, even if they did exist).

I'm not sure that I understand the KakaoTalk business model.  It seems 
to have to do with selling Korean Telecom Gift cards.  Without knowing 
more I don't know whether an an alternative client could undermine the 
business model.

I get the impression that KakaoTalk is to Korea as MXit is to South 
Africa, but it may turn out that that similarity is only in respect of 
the platform and addressing.
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