Skype substitutes for current Debian?
Having recently received the Skype email requiring reinstall with new version, I'd like to learn more about available, working substitutes for Skype for D7/wheezy, possibly current testing/jessie, and maybe even more robust bits of sid. (For brevity, I'll refer to that collectively as "D7++".) Particularly I'm interested in the following usecase: someone receives request from OP to do an interview by Skype, the service with which the OP is most familiar. Are there, e.g.,
1. Skype-compatible clients for D7++ which could be used to connect directly to an OP running Skype?
2. Alternate services (e.g., Google Hangout) with ease-of-use sufficiently approximate to Skype that the D7++ user could reasonably propose to an OP of {usual, not very strong} IT-literacy?
3. Skype-compatible clients for D7++ which could be used to connect directly to an OP running that alternate service?
I'm especially interested in evaluations of
https://wiki.debian.org/skype
> free and open source alternative[s,] community-owned and supported by Debian, such as the VoIP ekiga , linphone , or jitsi ?
I'm especially *not* here interested in discussion of the relative evilness of various corporations and governments, that having been covered well in the thread beginning @
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/08/msg00061.html
TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
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