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.
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