On 02/12/2018, Damien Sandras <dsand...@seconix.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Due to the lack of time, and to the last outages, I have taken the > decision to discontinue EKIGA.NET before the end of the year. > > Thank you for your support during all those years. > > It has been a pleasure! > -- > > > > > > > > Damien SANDRAS > > > > Ekiga Project > > http://www.ekiga.org > > > >
Hello. I am wondering whether, given that Ekiga is said to be open source, rather than, as its owner, simply shutting it down, it would not be more appropriate and consistent with the (perceived) nature of open source,, to seek a new group of people, to take it on, for the sake of its continuance. More and more good Linux software, has been abandoned/discontinued, and, with MS apparently determined to progressively eliminate skype (MS has been p[rogressively hobbling skype, since MS bought it out), a developing technology in IT - the means od making video calls, amongst other uses, is being eliminated. It is a bit like, if Alexander Bell had decided that he had had enough of trying to develop telephony, and said "Stuff it - I've had enough - I am going to put it all into boxes and bury it.", rather than passing it on to others to continue the development. Imagine what the world would be like, if we had not had telephony. Imagine what the wotld could be like, if we would have video calls and videoconferencing, as commonplace, as telephony has been. Here in Australia, members of the federal parliament, fly thousands of kilometres, to sit in the parliament (when they can be bothered turning up for "work" - the federal parliament is apparently scheduled to meet, for only ten days, in the next eight months, while its members hibernate (and, hide from each other) ), and, whilst the Australian federal partliament does not want to progress from the stone age, if its members used virtual attendance, through videoconferencing, it could save the country a fortune, and, show that Australia is not really such a stupid and backward country, that it appears to be (we have a federal government, that is obsessed with burning as much cpoall as possible, as it is worried about the increasing chill in the air). So, while MS is doing as much as it can, to obstruct communications, with its progressive hobbling of skype, if Ekiga could be turned into a community project, and, thence, continue to be developed and maintained, instead of being abandoned, like so much other Linux software, we could have hope, that communications technology will continue to advance, instead of being abandoned and left in unusable pieces on the side of the road.. So, rather than simply abandoning Ekiga, I ask whether it could be offered as a community project, so as to provide for its continued development, maintenance, and, support, rather than simply abandoning it. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list