On Sat, 2008-02-02 10:03:36 -0700, Richi Plana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 17:38 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-02-02 13:01:34 +0000, Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rémi Cardona wrote: > > > > As Skype is a proprietary application, I think it'd be a good thing if > > > > they did their PA support like Macromedia/Adobe did for flash, using > > > > libflashsupport. > > [...] > > > Big +1 on this. Making it a community project would seriously help their > > > Linux users and as a result their reputation (Skype's) would increase. > > > > Where's the actual pro for Skype? I'm somewhat happy with Ekiga... > > Though it doesn't have direct support for PA, ALSA default works and > > placing pulse redirection into asound.conf does the trick. > > Personally, in my case, 1) ratio of acquaintances on Skype as opposed to > some Ekiga-supported network/protocol, and 2) (here, I have to be
Ekiga is a SIP/H.323 client. So only standardized, interoperable
network protocols, opposed to the proprietary stuff Skype does...
> Other than the fact that it's a closed-source app, there are actually a
> ton of reasons to use it. And I haven't looked at Ekiga's source code
> recently so in my case, it boils down to how well they're supported by
> people other than myself ... and they (Skype people) seem to be doing a
> good job recently.
They started with a completely wrong approach IMHO. And Ekiga (or any
other SIP client) is as easy to install, has voice and video support
and is interoperable, in contrast to Skype.
MfG, JBG
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