On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:53, Harald Welte <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > there's no need for anyone to apologize for anything, at least not from > my point of view. Some people have made various suggestions, others > have sent their views, no rough languange was used - in other words an > entirely civilized discussion. > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:42:19PM +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote: > > > Regarding my Skype note - for me it's similar to using Altium where I > > would love to use an open-source app. > > I don't want you to stop using it or stop mentioning to use it. I just > wanted to state that in the context of an Osmcoom event, I would > definitely not want to use it. > > As a more practical note: I'm quite sure that the various SIP and H.323 > compatible soft-phones as well as hardware/emedded devices are a really > good and functional alternative to Skype. I think they are much closer > on a functional level to their proprietary alternative than let's say > KiCAD or gEDA are to Altium Designer.
When I looked at them some 5 years ago as a VoIP developer, all open-source VoIP tools were in very bad state. Even our one was barely usable in non-ideal situations. May be things got better since that time. I have to review available options again when I get some free time. -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris.
