Message: 3 Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:14:11 +0100 From: Alan Cox
<alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Skype under Fedora-10 To:
"Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
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> I don't understand why there is not a similar Linux system.
> Surely developing a VoIP protocol can't be brain surgery?
> And what exactly is the advantage or using SIP?
Almost everything else on the planet except Skype uses SIP and they all
interwork. You can inspect your SIP code and be sure it contains no
suprises while you can't with Skype - see
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/25/skype_backdoor_rumours/
and the stuff about China and Skype. With open source you could verify
the situation, with Skype you can't.
Skype is essentially the MS Windows of the VoIP world: proprietary and
closed. It talks to nothing but itself, and even encrypts its own
binaries to prevent people reverse engineering it.
Hi Alan et al.
First, thanks for the link - I tend (as a retiree) not to spend a lot of
time following the rants and raves in the Internet about big
software/hardware suppliers..... I'd end up neuroticer than a mad dog! -
but it was very interesting to see how something "useful" like Skype
is/maybe financed. I was surprised to learn from the article that S
belongs to eBay....
Now... if one is to avoid supporting the proprietary market.... does
anyone have a quick guide (!) to the Open Source alternatives? An answer
to the questions like "can I hold an audio meeting with non-Linux
friends"; "does xyz allow video communication"; "can I use the white
board via xyz" & so on????
For once I begin to understand the strong points of Kevin & Co about the
Dark Side of closed systems!
Thanks all
Dave.
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