Re: [Ekiga-list] Any prospect of Ekiga being ported to MacOS

[David Woodfall <dave dawoodfall net>]

On (19/02/13 20:02), el_gallo_azul <el_gallo_azul yahoo com> put forth the proposition:
> 1. Operating system usage share:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
>
> 2. I am trying to find out myself whether any SIP account can connect to any other SIP account, regardless of 
> the software. I don't know yet, but would appreciate if you let me know the outcome of your post.

Yes, any SIP application should be able to talk to any other SIP
application.

> 3. Available SIP applications (I believe we discussed this on Saturday):
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SIP_software
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software (this shows the operating systems)
>
>
>  
> Greg Flint
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> sip: el_gallo_azul ekiga net
> sip: 473936 sip diamondcard us
> sip: 0889451725 sip internode on net
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> ________________________________
> De: Bret Busby <bret busby net>
> Para: ekiga-list gnome org
> Enviado: Miércoles 20 de febrero de 2013 12:45
> Asunto: [Ekiga-list] Any prospect of Ekiga being ported to MacOS
>
> Hello.
>
> I have contacted one of my brothers, regarding Skype, and he has a Skype account, but seldom uses it, and 
> instead uses an application named FaceTime, which is only Apple to Apple (I assume, MacOS), and he said that 
> FaceTime is better quality than Skype.
>
> On the web page at http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Main_Page , Ekiga does not show as being able to be 
> installed and run on MacOS.
>
> On the web page at http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Ekiga_Interoperability , Ekiga does not show as being 
> compatible with FaceTime for the MacOS.
>
> So, I am wondering whether any prospect exists, of Ekiga being ported to MacOS.
>
> I do not know how many (either absolute number, or, relative (as proportion of total) WWW (as in the 
> graphical thing that runs on top of the Internet) users, use Mac OS, or, how the number of Mac OS users, 
> compares to the number of Linux users, but, as Ekiga apparently runs on Linux and other UNIX and Unix-like 
> OS's, and, on MS Windows, I am wondering about the prospect of Ekiga being ported to MacOS.
>
> Thank you in anticipation, for your response.