but it was very interesting to see how something "useful"
like Skype
is/maybe financed. I was surprised to learn from the article that S
belongs to eBay....
They paid big money for it, although now the rumour is it's for sale -
and ebay just pulled all the skype icons from the auction site, which has
really started the rumours back up.
Now... if one is to avoid supporting the proprietary market.... does
anyone have a quick guide (!) to the Open Source alternatives? An answer
to the questions like "can I hold an audio meeting with non-Linux
friends"; "does xyz allow video communication"; "can I use the white
board via xyz" & so on????
Probably a good starting spot is:
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/
which will also talk to Microsoft Netmeeting
There are also other tools such as twinkle
(
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mfnboer/twinkle/index.html)