On Wednesday 27 September 2006 12:01, Fibonacci Prower wrote: > 2006/9/27, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote: > > > And while they do, what? Stop using their programs and hope they'll > > > > still > > > > > care about the Linux community to make a new version? > > > > I guess its like other proprietary software that broke forever due to > > windows > > upgrades and the like. Its part of the nature of proprietary software. > > Which propietary software as ubiquitous as Flash broke forever due to > Windows upgrades? > > Most likely someone will soon reverse engineer skype entirely, at which > > > point > > two things will happen, one of which is that skye to standards compliant > > gateways will appear, the other regretably is that millions of infected > > voice-spam boxes will begin phoning everyone on the planet non-stop > > selling > > viagra. > > You not liking Skype is not a reason to remove support for it. It's the > only way millions of people have to talk with their loved ones without the > phone bill skyrocketing. And yes, that includes me. I personally refuse to use skype because of its proprietary and peer-2-peer nature. I dont want my voice calls routed through someone elses computer using a protocol i cant review. I personally would sugest that you use a standards compliant software say kphone or ekigra and a service such as Free world dialup. they have stun servers which will help you with nat issues. I live half way around the world from My family and have gone to the lengths of setting up an asterisk box at home connected to a pstn provider in australia so that my non technical family members can pick up a regular phone and call me for the cost of a local call. i also have it connected to a pstn provider in the US for localish service. Dennis -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
