Re: Skype Bad, Gizmo Good

["C. Chad Wallace" <cwallace@thelodgingco.com>]

Brent Clark wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Has anyone seen this yet, an opensource alternative to skype.
>
> http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=177
>
> http://www.gizmoproject.com/

I see no indication that Gizmo is open source at all.  In fact, they only provide binaries for download (albeit in .deb format), and the license explicitly forbids copying.  I think the only way in which Gizmo is any more free than Skype is that it supports the SIP standard.

TTYL
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