Best FOSS alternative for skype?

[Tim]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 09:02 +0200, Dmitri Bachtin wrote:
> Take care of using SIP clients at industry PBX systems. A lot of them
> write "supports SIP" nowadays, but interpret and extend SIP in such a
> way that nothing but their own periphery and software works with their
> infrastructure. It's worse than with html&javascript in browsers a few
> years back.

Hmm, "sip" as in you can have a taste, but not a whole drink...  ;-)

How appropriate the name "sip" would seem.

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