Dotan , your remarks are really appreciated and shared IMO. Ekiga website is still too scary for the basic tardeted audience, a few minor changes can make it even easier than Skype/MSN/otherShit.
But : On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad < [email protected]> wrote: > > I really don't understand why anyone would want to submit to Skype, seeing > how they're more expensive than their competitors in many countries, and > cannot even provide connections to the "real" telephony networks in many > countries. Not to mention the fact that they use force to keep their > customers from choosing other service providers. > It's really simple : >From skype website , you're just 3 clicks away from VideoCalling your friend , whatever his x86 OS is ( almost ). 90% skype users ( 14 Millions ) don't even use the callout service. they just want to call their friends on their computer and use the webcam. Webcam is a killer app , we all know this. > > In my experience, once people are made aware of these issues, they're not > so hesitant about switching to real internet telephony services which are > free > and also gives you the freedom of choice. > I hate skype and the system behind it but what you say is not true. Usually , the tehnics and ethics behind a software does not influence people choice. as long as the software does not cost money , is easy and work well without any stupid ads or malware, they will use it forever. Look how ubuntu users wanted ekiga to be removed from defailt ubuntu and be replaced with some skype shit. that shows how even freeOS users don't care... so Windows users... To carry on your thoughts I guess : - User agent detection to launch the right download as most Websites would be great. ( at least for windows and mac ( Xmeeting ? ) ) - Static Build for Linux would be great, it's just too complicated to support the 100 distros. ( I tried to generate a static but failed ..) -- %<------------------------------------------------------->% Michel memeteau Blog 0.2 : http://memeteau.free.fr Fixe : 0974763294 Mobile : 0624808051 VOIP | Visio: sip:[email protected] <sip%[email protected]> jabber/GTalk : xmpp:[email protected] <xmpp%[email protected]>
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