On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:44 (-0400), Morris Beverly wrote:
> In general, and please don't take this the wrong way as I am a long
> time supporter of all Damien's (and other's) work on this great
> project, I've found that ekiga seems to be moving away from it's
> formerly strong support of h323 in favor of sip. This of course
> makes perfect sense since 323 is entirely unsuited for work across
> the internet and sip works much more reliably. I know that the
> project is meant to be an internet soft phone and not really a
> complete video conferencing system. However it used to be really
> nice to be able to connect up to other 323 hardware platforms like
> polycom, tandberg and the rest. I also realize that the
> difficulties are usually because vendors have implemented things in a
> way to make interoperability difficult so they can keep market share
> through lock in. Alas, I know that I'm in the minority and with
> limited developer hours things have to be prioritized to help the
> greatest number of users. I guess I'm just longing for the old days,
> back before I became a grumpy old man ;)
Don't be too harsh on yourself. Sometimes I need to connect with
Polycom equipment, and so reduction in h323 functionality is troubling
for me as well.
Also, even between two instances of ekiga, sometimes I can get h323 to
work when sip just won't go. So FWIW, I'd like to see h323 to stay.
But maybe I'm just an old grumpy guy too. (Ow!)
Jim
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