On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:26:25PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > 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/ Tried on OpenBSD, doesn't work. > -http://www.openwengo.com/ Tried on OpenBSD, doesn't work. > -http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Tried on OpenBSD, doesn't work.
The guy wants it on OpenBSD. CL< > -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
