-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 03/30/2013 11:04 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > Microsoft, like many corporations, employs professional spokesliars > who are very, very good at crafting wording that can be defended > (should it come to that) but which doesn't present the truth in a > straightforward fashion. That's their JOB. After all: anyone > there could tell the truth -- it's not hard. But it takes a > trained and practiced professional to evade it, obscure it, conceal > it, dance around it in convincing fashion -- and even use it in > limited ways when it serves the purpose. > *** Too long for a tweet; awesome prose!
> > That said, though, even if I'm right on all those points, that's > not going to stop people from using it. And that's where *you're* > right: I wish you weren't, but you are, and I don't know how to fix > that situation. > *** I don't know either, but Jitsi provides such a good alternative to Skype that the only blocking "feature" is the social network: when people using skype intensively decide to switch to Jitsi (or other SIP-compatible clients), it's done. Is it merely a matter of marketing and network effect? Is it a matter of promoting SIP services at ISP level? How to beat the inertia of a bad habit? == hk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRV4HxAAoJEDhjYTkcokoTjLwP/2KPgacaKxSWQc7JdxucMp33 crr49jj9Tz4Xd8LUASwZo+gjKRZezv6K8+ijyMHpjKS2n1noVGZzeOA3Oi/6jVm4 mWCzGwVlLeXpcrBtyo7RSRvMFD3ys+Cx1npW0fp0Kl6A49zKku8VVPXs9SLWU3i/ yQ41jKfFscgzDSrX+QwOEN1TnJIbCJ3SY3vQo1Ne/1XlNUBpCXSH4soNjr7iQoXL kDSyQVRtk4iaF7DDA3PmQrd827xgtb5/nz4UdiptZgLgVhpJZ1/Ar7cZ/aDCs44k GPfwILiiGbRZA3UtWn+A/aG12MKxxxJ+LRaaz1Vxa/XBNgPkO5a8Oyp2SGUTerlR QOq09j9436LKDClQszFnW7uUAPogsx0WuhCHeujoObRquW0oN/UmY7qqMcw+lkVJ Fjl65D5jgUhOQQoWgv3xe2NAC0bEokVZbqGx60HVKy4Zbe6Yc/gsxEX3ceRVSV+/ /sKPI74Qm/BIo4h0F9PWl9fMxiz68RrhTjbynybS89KFJGBwcscNIW060wDNYIMS RsWHfql+IGMCwLr20GHVNq02sIhB5vAiagaIboKOg3bPaVnqsKWRxwQRjV52yuPE KLVXxhi8IgDq8IAnvYtdrIQeN0qT+xMwJ0mTPynZGpRNoieJ/hqUZaZoIcMcTcEv x8Cwgy4s9Cjr3uDlJOAI =IWPk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
