On Wednesday 27 September 2006 12:01, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
2006/9/27, Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
> > And while they do, what? Stop using their programs and hope they'll
>
> still
>
> > care about the Linux community to make a new version?
>
> I guess its like other proprietary software that broke forever due to
> windows
> upgrades and the like. Its part of the nature of proprietary software.
Which propietary software as ubiquitous as Flash broke forever due to
Windows upgrades?
Most likely someone will soon reverse engineer skype entirely, at which
> point
> two things will happen, one of which is that skye to standards compliant
> gateways will appear, the other regretably is that millions of infected
> voice-spam boxes will begin phoning everyone on the planet non-stop
> selling
> viagra.
You not liking Skype is not a reason to remove support for it. It's the
only way millions of people have to talk with their loved ones without the
phone bill skyrocketing. And yes, that includes me.
I personally refuse to use skype because of its proprietary and peer-2-peer
nature. I dont want my voice calls routed through someone elses computer
using a protocol i cant review.
I personally would sugest that you use a standards compliant software say
kphone or ekigra and a service such as Free world dialup. they have stun
servers which will help you with nat issues.
I live half way around the world from My family and have gone to the lengths
of setting up an asterisk box at home connected to a pstn provider in
australia so that my non technical family members can pick up a regular phone
and call me for the cost of a local call.
i also have it connected to a pstn provider in the US for localish service.
Dennis