On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Mike Connors wrote: > Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:19:01 -0800 > From: Mike Connors <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PLUG] open source Skype clients? > > Andrew Jackman wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> My wife's sister is teaching in at a university in Turkey. The >>> sister uses Skype on her windoze computer to talk to her windoze-only >>> husband, and would like to use it with my wife, too. I can install >>> the official linux version of Skype, but would prefer an open source >>> alternative client at our end. No, we don't get to change the other >>> end. Suggestions? >>> >>> >> >> As far as I know, there are no OS Skype clients because the protocol >> remains a trade secret. I think I recall reading something to this >> effect on their company FAQ. >> >> > Yes, the protocol is closed so there isn't an OS alternative client > that you can use to communicate w. Skype clients. Supposedly you can do > this w. Ekiga and a SIP trunk but it's not free. > > However, Skype did saw they were going to OS the client. > > "We appreciate our user community's enthusiasm and realize this is > something they have been wanting for a while. We realize the potential > of the open source community and believe that making Skype for Linux an > open source application will help to speed up its development and > enhance its compatibility with different versions of Linux. While it is > our goal to make Skype for Linux source code available to the community > in the nearest future, we are not at a point to disclose an exact > release date yet. > > http://linuxcrunch.com/content/skype-will-be-open-source > > I was a big user and proponent of Skype at one point and the people started > calling it spyware. I never found out if there is more to it than just > rumor...
There are a bunch of standards-compliant H323 clients out there for all platforms: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Open+Source+VOIP+Software With so many good choices out there, why do people insist on using the most crappy one? Marketing is truly evil. Make the change at the other end. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
