On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:49 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Microsoft is an advertising company so it'll be able to make very
good
use of that data to manage and target adverts better.
It's not really down to "FOSS alternatives". There are *standards* for
voice over IP. I guess Skype fits MS well in that its a proprietary
non-standard 8)
Actually there are, notably SIP. However one is reminded of Andy
Tanenbaum's well-known remark: "The good thing about standards is that
if you don't like one of them, you can just use a different one".
poc