On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:31:55PM -0700, Jerry Glomph Black wrote: > I've just submitted this as a Slashdot story, too. > I have absolutely no connection with any of the principals, I just think they > are doing the right thing. This could have a major impact on the Asterisk > community, and VoIP usage in general. > > Michael Robertson, of mp3.com fame, has been battling for open standards in > the > IP telephony world, in addition to his better-known Lindows (now Linspire, at > http://www.linspire.com) venture to promote Linux on the desktop. His > sipphone.com VoIP operation works great for me, but Michael has been long > concerned about the totally closed and proprietary nature of Skype (as well > as a > lot of the misleading hype surrounding it). > > Today his crew released "Gizmo" (at "http://www.gizmoproject.com) (a tentative > name until a better one is found) which has the main benefits of Skype, PLUS > it > is layered upon SIP, DUNDI, and the existing sipphone.com infrastructure, ^^^
Looks like they already messed up... If they're going to redo all of this anyway, they might as well use a protocol like IAX where you don't have NAT problems. Matthew Fredrickson _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
