Graham Binns wrote: > 2009/1/14 alan c <[email protected]>: >> Can anyone say what the difference is, in terms of what is in Windows, >> between a paid skype and a free skype? In particular how to migrate >> across? > > There's no difference. He doesn't need to migrate, just log in on > Linux; everything useful is held online by Skype. > >> Am I correct in thinking that the financial total - credit or whatever >> - is probably held online by Skype? I can guess that on the Windows PC >> there will be such things as contacts, but I do not know enough about >> skype to know if contacts is also held online. >> > > Right. There shouldn't be anything to migrate. For example, I use > Skype from my mobile. Just by logging in I have access to all my Skype > contacts and can make SkypeOut calls to the people in my phone's > address book. Skype's servers hold all the juicy stuff.
Thanks, very useful! OT: It does bring to mind the warnings that Eben Moglen has in lectures such as Conferència inaugural del IV Congrés Internet, dret i política per part del Sr. Eben Moglen, professor de Dret i Història del dret a la Facultat de Dret de la Universitat de Colúmbia i president del Software Freedom Law Center (Nova York) del dia 2 de juny de 2008 In english: http://www.truveo.com/Eben-Moglen-IV-Congr%C3%A9s-Internet-dret-i-pol%C3%ADtica/id/1306529471 -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
