Taken from the Skype End User License Agreement (http://www.skype.com/company/legal/eula/)
------- QUOTE ------- Article 4. Permission to Utilize 4.1 Permission to utilize Your computer. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Skype Software, You hereby grant permission for the Skype Software to utilize the processor and bandwidth of Your computer for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication between You and other Skype Software users. ------- COMMENT -------- Yeah, they have a big cluster, with a huge bandwidth and processing capability, and facilitate the communication can be turned into almost anything the company wants... If they use it for getting money from other enterprises, they'll get profit, they'll pay better, the software gets better, the communication is facilitated :/ ------- /COMMENT -------- 4.2 Protection of Your computer (resources). You understand that the Skype Software will use its commercially reasonable efforts to protect the privacy and integrity of Your computer resources and Your communication, however, You acknowledge and agree that Skype cannot give any warranties in this respect. 11.3 Remedy. YOUR ONLY RIGHT OR REMEDY WITH RESPECT TO ANY PROBLEMS OR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SKYPE SOFTWARE IS TO DEINSTALL AND CEASE USE OF SUCH SKYPE SOFTWARE. 12.1 New versions of the Agreement. Skype reserves the right to modify this Agreement at any time by providing such revised Agreement to You or by publishing the revised Agreement on the Skype Website. Your continued use of the Skype Software shall constitute Your acceptance to be bound by the terms and conditions of the revised Agreement. ------- /QUOTE ------- I won't even say anything about that... I'll just never ACCEPT it. Gentoo is made of choices, and I think Skype, as was Kazaa, is just a path to take away or freedom. On 6/10/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralph Slooten wrote: > > > The only real issues (sound) I have come across with users are mainly > > Gentoo users who use the ebuilds, which in term uses a self-created > > sound-wrapper file which unfortunately does not work with everyone. > > > 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. > > > As for removing Skype in the future?? Where do you get your information > > from? It sounds to me like your personal opinion which is based on > > nothing more than your pro-gpl / anti-the-rest attitude. > > > History has shown that commercial software and Linux have a difficult > relationship at best: > > 1. Adobe Acrobat Reader was stuck at the crappy version 5 for years. > The supported Linux long enough to be able to reasonably claim > "cross-platform" support, but then their priorities changed. Only > recently have their priorities changed again. > > 2. ATI. Their 'support' would be laughable, if I didn't have one of > their products in my laptop. Won't be making *that* mistake again. > > 3. Bitkeeper. > > > You do realise that Skype being commercial is a company which like > > *every* other commercial company *needs* to make money to survive? Their > > > 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. > > > Sigh ... another twisted opinion of the word "freedom". Dude, it's > > "freedom" in terms of free to choose (and to have a choice), rather than > > "as long as it's free (price) AND GPL then it's OK ~ otherwise they are > > just \"abusing\" you". > > > For the record, I don't live in the 'free software' camp, but I am glad > they exist. It has nothing to do with restricting choices to GPL > software, but with not giving up real freedom in the name of convenience. > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html > > -Richard > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- [email protected] mailing list
