I forgot to mention that I trust the companies behind Signal & Wire a lot more than Skype (Microsoft). That is why I stopped using Skype years ago.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:50 PM elcaseti . <[email protected]> wrote: > Linphone has been around for years, & it still doesn't work. Signal > Private Messenger works very well, & it's quite popular. I use it with > friends and family every day. You do need to install Signal to a > smartphone. Then you can use it on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS. The > desktop version only supports texting & sending files. For voice calls & > video calls, you have to use the smartphone version of Signal. " > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)" > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just checking, based on your comments: >> Do you need Skype working or are you looking for an alternative? >> >> Most of us who need Skype need it to communicate with other people, and >> they are >> not going to switch - so that is that for us. >> >> Tomas >> >> On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 20:35 +0000, [email protected] wrote: >> > Is it open source and more featureful than Skype? There are apparently >> servers >> > for WIRE in Switzerland, but it is encrypted in and from those servers? >> > >> > How about linphone? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PLUG mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
