Brian Potkin wrote:
And many religious organisations, Christian and other, will say much the same of themselves and their objectivesOn Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:38:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:Brian Potkin wrote: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.
You most certainly do.
I was asking about Skype, not about alternatives. Given that it comes from the same stable as one of the better-known spyware programs, it sparked my interest.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.
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