Am Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 09:42 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I am not advertising, but just claiming as a fact Skype is growing fast > and is already de facto IP-phone solution for MS Windows users. > The lacking video feature in the Skype is the only backdoor for open > standard VC-systems to take over. Hi Jouni,
why do I spontaneously have to think in the "billions of flies that can't be wrong" :-) ? In the consumer market many things started as proprietary solutions that gave way to open standards on the internet. Remember CompuServe? Remember mail addresses like 100637,2662? All the proprietary gateways to www (AOL, T-Online here in Germany) They all have something in common: They're gone. http, pop3, etc. prevail- And so will standard VoIP ans instant messenger protocols. That's the nature of the matter in a networked world where Anne calls Bert without having to know which model of computer, internet provider and software Bert has. Anyone who is arguing like you is - unknowingly - arguing for a world where you can have only one company controlling everything. This is a world of no choice for consumers and mediocre and overprized products. H323 would be gone for good. SIP is the coming standard. At least over, here you can subscribe to a variety of local and global SIP based VoIP services. (I'd be surprised if Finland was different) Conrad (who is using skype himself - but only for one special purpose) Still looking for a decent SIP client for windows which has video. Portrait isn't. _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
