Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] a Voip rant

["Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson gmail com>]

> > Hey all,
> >
> > Just saw this blog entry called 'VoIP Rant'. Has a couple of
> > reasonable points.
> >
> Which? For me the more reasonable point is to _not_ use Skype:
> - it eats all your bandwidth
> - is absolutlely not secure.
> - you have Skype in, Skype out. Where are competitors?
>
> If he has the choice of installing Ubuntu instead of Mandriva or any
> other distribution, why people shouldn't have the right to choose
> something else then Skype? If FW is a problem, just go for IAX, you will
> still have the choice of your gateways. (Damien, I use it for
> demonstration purpose, not against Ekiga ;-))

Not reasonable points about Skype. I hate Skype! More about usability.
Being able to just put a name in and call them rather than having to
mess around with sip:blah somewhere com etc. When we get the ability
to just call people in our contact list from within evo. I know that
most of his points are without full merit and he didn't even test
ekiga but there were some relevant points there which is why I pointed
it out. There's no need to _yell_ about it.

Peter