Re: [Ekiga-list] Linux Journal article on Ekiga and Wengo

[Derek Smithies <derek indranet co nz>]

Hi,
  On the topic of reviewers:

I was talking to the lead developer in a totally separate project, and he 
said that he made sure to provide "reviewers notes".
He further commented that it was a point of continual surprise how many 
reviewers just copied verbatim from the notes and used that in the 
article.

I would suggest that to prevent further "silly press" someone writes some
notes suitable for a reviewer.

Derek.


On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, George Boyd wrote:

> The problem I believe,is when reviewers test and compare software (in
this case the article you mentioned), is that the reviewers are not
fully aware of the potential or features of the software they are
writing about. Reviewers should know the programs completely before they
try to write comparison articles. 

Ekiga can be used with ANY sip service that allows inbound sip, with
pbx's, and h323 gateways. It would be ridiculous to program Ekiga to be
able to register (or in this article pay for pc>pstn credits) from the
program to all of the services it can use, since all of the services use
a different method to register (or pay). And I don't think Linux users
are so stupid they can't figure out how to go to a site and register or
pay, although this article seems to imply that.

If you see my signature at the end of this message, all of these services I 
use with one program, EKIGA!! I can use any one, or all of them at the same time. 
There are many more then just these services that can be used.

As far as WengoPhone or Gizmo, or any of the others. my best experience
is with Ekiga. If you look again at my signature, you will see that
Ekiga also works with Gizmo :)  Ekiga can be used to connect to windoze
users that use micro$ofts new version of the old msn messenger too
(micro$oft finally had to join the mainstream and make a messenger that
was SIP compatible) :) I think there is a WIKI for Ekiga that shows the
services and how to set them up that have been used by Ekiga users.

I know of no other program (windose or Linux) that has all the
capabilities that Ekiga does. As far as audio quality, like you asked. I
wonder what codec they were using, and through what service.

As far as installation, how hard is it really to use any of the modern
methods, such as Yum, etc to install the software, or to download and
install 3 rpms and go through the installation druid? As far as the
Linux community goes and with the installation instructions on Ekiga's
site, it's also very simple to compile and install from source (even if
you've never done it before).

I wish these reviewers had enough sense to be intelligent.



> Anyway, just thought I'd mention it on the list so that you're aware
> of coverage.
> 
> Ois�Feeley
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Ekiga Rocks!! One program so many ways to connect!

sip: geboyd53 ekiga net (or 617808 ekiga net)
H323: gk.voxgratia.net:1719 geboyd53
SipBroker: *673-617808  -or-  *011-1617808 (alias 617808)
e164: +13606660349 or +882 9999 398265 (linked to ekiga)
Voipbuster: geboyd53 (chat), 13606660349 (telephone)
Forward: 781549
Voxalot: 106153
Gizmo:  17476918163

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