Yes it does, because the methods of payments are not limited to what exchanges accept, but what people who sell Bitcoins accept.
Isn't that basically what the #bitcoin-otc achieves?
No because it's not embedded into the Bitcoin client/protocol.
We don't imbed the IRC client inside the bitcoin client because if each and every application did that it would a vast waste.
Do you imbed firefox or internet explorer into every application whose user might like to look at a web page?
I would hope not.
But maybe you are a Windows user and actually would prefer every application to be as big as the collection of all applications due to all having all the others inside itself?
On the other hand would you really notice the difference if we made the bitcoin package install depend on (and cause if its not been done yet) the install of an IRC client, and then fire up an IRC client for you any time you would like to do some trading with other users?
Ah heck, why even bother, we can fire up internet explorer for you, sending it to freenode's webchat interface targetting #bitcoin-otc
Would that truly be so horrible that you'd rather we put a whole extra copy of internet explorer inside the bitcoin client itself?
Should we also include a whole duplicate of each voicechat system you might find some other users of bitcoin on so you won't have to type but can simply talk to them? But wait, does Skype even give out its source code so that we could imbed it into bitcoin?
-MarkM-