Re: skype: Internet telephony

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Brian Potkin wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:38:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Brian Potkin wrote: Depends on what you mean by a 'sane user'. Such a user might want to use a product which (a) is capable of communicating with the rest of the VOIP world, (b) doesn't tie you to a parti

Re: skype: Internet telephony

2004-06-29 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:38:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Brian Potkin wrote: > > >Depends on what you mean by a 'sane user'. Such a user might want to > >use a product which > > > >(a) is capable of communicating with the rest of the VOIP world, > >(b) doesn't tie you to a particular

Re: skype: Internet telephony

2004-06-29 Thread John Summerfield
Brian Potkin wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:10:04PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Has anyone tried this? http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2762250480.html Given its parentage I'd pay close attention to my firewalls and what hosts it accesses and how. I'm very curious as to how well it doe

Re: skype: Internet telephony

2004-06-29 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:10:04PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Has anyone tried this? > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2762250480.html > > Given its parentage I'd pay close attention to my firewalls and what > hosts it accesses and how. > > I'm very curious as to how well it does what

Re: skype: Internet telephony

2004-06-29 Thread John Summerfield
Mike Ward wrote: I've only used it on windows 2000, but for what it's worth, I've had no problems with it there. I was wondering whether it has any phone-home capability. I've not heard of any spyware on Linux,but of courxe it's possible, especially with closed-source software. -- Cheers Joh

Re: skype: Internet telephony

2004-06-29 Thread Mike Ward
I've only used it on windows 2000, but for what it's worth, I've had no problems with it there. On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:30:24 +0300, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:10:04PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Has anyone tried this? > > http://www.desktoplinux

Re: skype: Internet telephony

2004-06-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:10:04PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Has anyone tried this? > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2762250480.html > > Given its parentage I'd pay close attention to my firewalls and what > hosts it accesses and how. > > I'm very curious as to how well it does what a

skype: Internet telephony

2004-06-29 Thread John Summerfield
Has anyone tried this? http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2762250480.html Given its parentage I'd pay close attention to my firewalls and what hosts it accesses and how. I'm very curious as to how well it does what a sane user would want:-) -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PR