On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:28:29 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
> Attila <jdkaye10@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> New Skype beta has been release as well....
>>>
>>> http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux/
>>>
>>> But it's proprietary and therefore risky (see bottom)...
>>>
>><snip>
>> Hi Roy,
>> As you suggest, this is hardly good news. Notice the version numbers for
>> Windows (3.2) Mac OS (2.6) and Linux (1.4) and you get an idea where Linux
>> fits in, in the Skype scheme of things. The User Guide seems to be limited
>> to Windows. It's also risky because if it gets too popular we have another
>> proprietary nightmare like MS Office, where we get locked into a format or
>> a protocol over which we have no control. Skype's pedigree is hardly
>> shining. These are the people who brought us Kazaa.
>>
>> I tried Wengo2.1 and had great trouble getting it to work. I wasn't greatly
>> impressed. My favourite sip client is Twinklephone. Sadly it's only
>> available for linux at the moment. Sjphone isn't bad and supports linux,
>> mac and windows. Ekiga is nice but the last I looked didn't support macs
>> (yes, a lot of my friends use macs). If Skype has its way, none of this
>> choice will exist.
>
> The technologies to look at are Sip Expres Router and Asterisk, and
> connect clients to those. Anything else is just digging a hole into the
> world of pain of proprietary lock-in; something only really fit for
> Windows zealots.
>
I would suggest also looking at Callweaver (formerly OpenPBX). It's a fork
from Asterisk due to ideological differences between themselves and
Digium. There are plans to replace the SIP Stack (something I personally
have considered a big weakness in Asterisk). As well, they have apparently
removed the hardware requirement for the conferencing bridge.
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