Best FOSS alternative for skype?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed May 11 12:19:42 UTC 2011


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



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