Best FOSS alternative for skype?

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On 05/11/2011 07:49 AM, 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)
> 
> Alan

$8.5 BB is a pretty serious premium for a company with zero revenue
(ever) which sold 2 times previously - first to ebay for $2.5 BB and
after that something < 1 BB ... still no revenue but a decent enough brand.

Anything skype has/had that google voice/talk doesn't ?


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