Agreed. IAX2 would have been a much better way to go. Regardless i don't see how an open source, standards based softphone will compete with Skype. Skype has a few things going for it:
1) Hype, lots of it. It's no coincidence that that the two rhyme 2) Built in traversal of firewalls - p2p style (have I mentioned I hate sip + nat) 3) Encryption, Encryption, Encryption An open source, standards based free implementation does not win over users. There needs to be more, just ask the Ogg folks how MP3's doing. Also it's worth noting that both are free, however Skype has a Linux version! Skype = Win, Mac, Lin x86, PocketPC Gizmo Beta = Mac, Win (Coming Soon: Linux?) Erik On 6/30/05, Matt Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
