Re: skype: Internet telephony
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:38:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Brian Potkin wrote:
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> >Depends on what you mean by a 'sane user'. Such a user might want to
> >use a product which
> >
> >(a) is capable of communicating with the rest of the VOIP world,
> >(b) doesn't tie you to a particular communications provider,
> >(c) supports standard protocols,
> >(d) is not closed and proprietary,
> >(e) is free.
> >
> >Skype might be very good technically but it doesn't fulfill any of these
> >criteria whereas SIP based software and hardware is available which does.
> >
> Debian is a religion: it has nothing to do with being sensible or sane.
I'd rather view Debian as a volunteer organisation endeavouring to
produce the best free operating system possible. What could be more
sane and sensible than that?
> You use close and proprietary software, so you shouldn't make that a
> requirement:-)
Apologies if I misunderstand you here but I hope you are not asserting I
use non-free software. If it was absolutely essential and there was no
free alternative I would, but as it happens I have not yet had that
situation arise.
The point I was trying to make was that there is standards based
software which is an alternative to Skype and which is well worth
investigating.
> OTOH anyone with any sense would be concerned if it should prove to be
> sending information about them to some stickybeak who plans on making
> profit from it.
http://www.skype.com/privacy.html is informative.
Brian.
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> Cheers
> John
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