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Richard Fish wrote: > So, from what you just said and the previous comments on this thread, I > can assume that Skype only supports the obsolete OSS API for sound? > Sorry, an 'awesome' product that truly wanted to support linux would > support alsa, esd, and arts sound APIs at a minimum. Correct. It only supports OSS for the time being. Don't you have oss emulation enabled? Skype is not the only product to not have alsa support yet. As for the sound daemons, well that is what the wrappers are for. > History has shown that commercial software and Linux have a difficult > relationship at best: The Subject should be [WOT] .... Way off topic. I am just correcting hard statements saying it will be "not free" in the future. I agree with you and the points you made here, but they have little to do with Skype. Those drivers / programs are still free (price) as they were before. You are referring to the fact that they are products from commercial companies who make money off them in one way or another like Skype does. Correct. I still don't see where the "skype will start charging soon" comes in though... > True, but supporting a Linux client takes resources and money. Business > priorities change, and some suit could very easily decide that the linux > client is not their "core business value" or some such crap. Yes, but again, the point was made in reference to "As soon as this happened, it is likely that the Linux version disappears", and where that info comes from. The whole reason for this post was purely because it seems that every time some commercial company releases something for free everyone jumps on the bandwaggon and rips on them. I don't own Skype, nor do I have anything financial to do with it, however I actually appreciate that a company like it takes the time and effort to make such a product that actually works well on 3 major OS's. Show me another product (commercial or not) that can interreact perfectly on all 3 without having a extensive computer knowledge. It is no secret where they get their money from. Whether you choose to use their payed service is your choice entirely. The fact that there is a free side to it only helps them promote it, but that does not change the fact that they provide a working VOIP solution which apparently many companies are using these days. They even state on their website "Skype-to-Skype calls will remain free". Greetings Ralph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCqU0KAWKxH5yWMT8RAuJOAKCU1auXEkSC1QtzNBds7yzx97TRTwCcD+zj 7q8tB0frPhpzg/qEu/kSBrY= =zRW1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
