On 15:30, Thu 30 Jun 05, Erik Espinoza wrote: > 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
huh?? why is this a pre ? All my connections (cept to our ITSP) are encrypted. Even the IAX2 and SIP links between the different asterisk machines. In my opinion encrypting the whole network stack is a better way to go then just encrypt one protocol while leaving a lot of other sensitive stuff flow unencrypted. Encryption is higly overrated in voip world. Did you ever try to evedrop a call ??? > > 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. I have around 10 GB of mp3 and "only" 64 GB of .ogg files. More and more ppl adept .ogg cause it's simply better. A better example would be Video2000 vs VHS. That's where the best hyped version (read, the best lost) won. > > 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 > Just my 2 cents, and by no means the truth Michiel _______________________________________________ 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
