On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Vik Olliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 13:58 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: >> Skype will use any and all network ports that it can find open, >> regardless of their reason. It will send your call data over port 443, >> pretending to be HTTPS traffic in order to defeat your proxy systems. >> > So, Skype has done what is necessary to work while Open Source SIP apps > won't work for people because they won't adapt. Looks to me like a case > of technical purity being held over the needs of the user. I'm not a fan > of that. It makes Open Source apps stagnate and die.
No, it's a case of short-term gain at the cost of long term stability. Luckily, the people that "run" the Internet are fans of technical purity, otherwise you'd still have MSN and AOL not talking to each other. -jim
