On Friday 23 March 2007 12:13, Tobias Weisserth wrote: > From the emails in this thread we know he needs it for work, so he > hasn't really got a choice. There's no other client to the Skype > network. Maybe there's a way to lockin Skype in systrace. On openSUSE > I locked Skype in with AppArmor for my parents. If you need to talk > to people on Skype you don't really have a choice.
Well, it might not work for everyone but I took a different approach to solving the skype problem. I decided to be a prick and require people using Skype to have a standard phone number via SkypeIn. Being locked into the insecure, proprietary skype world is really their problem and I refuse to join them. Once you have a standard way to contact the skype user via a normal phone number, then you are free to deploy and use whatever you want on your end to reduce your costs... -http://www.asterisk.org/ -http://www.openwengo.com/ -http://www.gizmoproject.com/ -http://www.google.com/talk/ (supposedly SIP soon -see link below) -http://code.google.com/apis/talk/open_communications.html -whatever -long distance plan on your cell phone -and surprisingly enough, even your PTSN land line The above should be enough to make anyone wonder if they actually *need* skype at all but if someone decides to use and pay for skype, then it's their responisibility to become compatible with the rest of the world. jcr
