On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 17:07:46 +1000 "Kevin Morgan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I never actually use headsets, I just use the mike in the laptop, > which worked just fine before I lost Windows XP....in fact EVERYTHING > worked just fine before I changed to Linux/Ubuntu/gOS > > I just want everything to work like it did before, but without using > Windows (spyglass). > > Cheers Bluey If you want it to work just as it did before, why do you want to move from Windows? I know why I don't: I don't want to buy into the cycle of one-type-of-software-only supported hardware, I want to preserve freedom in the use of the software that I choose, and I want to preserve the real benefits of community (albeit surrounded by my type of software). However, the world doesn't always play fair and the way that I want. Large corporations such as Micro$oft and Apple try to slope the playing field so it is always to their advantage and make deals that require the licencing of Windows software to make hardware work. Their business practices are immoral (or more properly amoral) and often illegal. You have to pay in time and trouble to use Linux and other free (as in freedom) operating systems. For instance, why use a proprietary protocol such as that used by Skype, when you can use an open protocol such as SIP, when you have an excellent softphone in the repositories in the shape of Ekiga. You'll have to change your provider to one which uses the SIP protocol (such as Gizmo or Freespeech) but you won't need to have only one provider with your softphone - Skype - because any will do that uses the SIP protocol. Its the standards you are using, not something that is linked to a proprietary piece of software. So if you want Linux to use the same software as Windows to the same lengths of proficiency, you will find that it conflicts with a licence somewhere. Use the alternative on offer then you'll be free of all that most likely. Personally, I'd like gOS not to have reference to the Gadget for Skype, but to a SIP service. Now why do you want to use Linux - is it merely to mimic Windows? -- Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
