Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga-list Digest, Vol 86, Issue 16

[Jim Diamond <Jim Diamond acadiau ca>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:44 (-0400), Morris Beverly wrote:

> In general, and please don't take this the wrong way as I am a long
> time supporter of all Damien's (and other's)  work on this great
> project, I've found that ekiga seems to be moving away from it's
> formerly strong support of h323 in favor of sip.  This of course
> makes perfect sense since 323 is entirely unsuited for work across
> the internet and sip works much more reliably.  I know that the
> project is meant to be an internet soft phone and not really a
> complete video conferencing system.  However it used to be really
> nice to be able to connect up to other 323 hardware platforms like
> polycom, tandberg  and the rest.  I also realize that the
> difficulties are usually because vendors have implemented things in a
> way to make interoperability difficult so they can keep market share
> through lock in.  Alas, I know that I'm in the minority and with
> limited developer hours things have to be prioritized to help the
> greatest number of users.  I guess I'm just longing for the old days,
> back before I became a grumpy old man ;)

Don't be too harsh on yourself.  Sometimes I need to connect with
Polycom equipment, and so reduction in h323 functionality is troubling
for me as well.

Also, even between two instances of ekiga, sometimes I can get h323 to
work when sip just won't go.  So FWIW, I'd like to see h323 to stay.

But maybe I'm just an old grumpy guy too.  (Ow!)

                                Jim