On 06/21/2012 03:50 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > As far as I understand, it is entirely true that Google's Hangout, > or Skype, are easy to use. Of the free variants, I mainly have > experience with Mumble, which usually works, but requires tweaking > and configuration to work well. > > The other aspect, however, is that Hangout and Skype are not free. > It is not unacceptable for those developing Debian to use non-free > software, or non-free services, but it gets problematic if it's > the common case, or if it is advocated. We, as a project, value > software freedome, and if we choose tools that are not free, we > are not living up to our values as a project. > > To find out if a service like this is actually useful for distributed > bug squashing, by all means, let's use the proprietary services. Then > we can find or make the free software to do it with freedom.
Exactly. Or we can even use a hangout to develope a replacement for the google+ hangout. :) -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe32b6a.6050...@bzed.de
