Allegedly, on or about 18 January 2016, jd1008 sent: > So, I am wondering why is the skype implementation proprietary? > Since it is the physical infrastructure (the communications equipment > and accounts database computers ...etc) that is (are) the primary > investment, why should the protocol implementation be so proprietary? > If anyone wanted to set up a similar service and had the money for the > equipment, they can do so now, using open source, without the > proprietary implementation of skype. > So, I am just somewhat puzzled by the secretiveness of MS and the > previous proprietors of skype. Because that would be against their plans of world domination. I only say that in half-jest. It's not untrue, and it sums it up quite succinctly. We've known for decades that they want everyone to use Microsoft, locking you into their systems, by locking out alternatives. They'll let things get out that hook you into their systems, because what they deign to let work, only has partial functionality (e.g. like other software not being fully able to read and write Word documents), so that you'll stump up the money and swap over to them for something that (purports to be) fully functional. With mickeysoft, it's all about the money. How can they get as much from you as possible, time and time again. The software can be rotten as hell, so long as they get your money. Crude capitalism at its worst. With other programmers, that don't have that mindset, the prime goal can be that the software does what it's supposed to, properly. I make no bones about being anti-Microsoft. I suffered the nightmare of using their shite product for years, and the carnage they inflict upon everyone else, for even longer. And much as I'd like to say, just don't use Skype, use something else; that doesn't work when someone wants to Skype you. They see it as a failing in your OS that you can't, not that it's a deliberately engineered obstacle in the Skype product, to exclude you (because you don't run Windows), nor do they grasp that it's deliberate incompatibility with any other VOIP protocol. And they're not going to abandon using Skype just for you. Skype's a dopey thing, anyway. It makes sense only as an alternative to expensive long distance and overseas calls. For other calls, the ordinary telephone is better (it "simply works," and sounds clearer), than using a $1000 computer that has to be permanently powered up, running, and you logged in, to make and receive phone calls. And another thing. We've had video camming for over a decade, now. And it's still just as crashy and buggy. Trying to send or receive a webcam has always been an exercise in the whole computer, or webcam software crashing, and doing damn fool things. Half the time I tried to use it you had to fight to get a picture working. There was many hang-up and call again attempts, restart the camera, restart the software, even reboots. And I've had one call where the other person's picture was upside down, of all the stupid video processing errors to make. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Windows (TM) [Typhoid Mary]. They refuse to believe that there's anything wrong with it, but everyone else knows Windows is a disease that spreads. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
