Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Website updated

[Johnny Strom <jonny strom netikka fi>]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> We are again coding hard on the future 1.2 release of GnomeMeeting.
> There will be more internal changes than user-visible changes, but we
> are paving the way for SIP.
>         
> People are often asking me what I think of Skype. What I think is pretty
> clear... 
>         
> The main problem is not that the program is not Open Source, the problem
> is that Skype is locking users into a proprietary protocol. Would you
> imagine the Internet with a proprietary equivalent to the HTTP protocol
> that only a given client could browse? That's what happens with Skype.
> Skype also has a great marketing force, some people even think that
> Skype has a superior audio quality. How could Skype have a superior
> quality when it is using the same codec (iLBC) than software like
> GnomeMeeting while introducing more latency by making calls go through a
> 3rd party? The only real advantage of Skype is that it is easily going
> through any type of NAT, using a 3rd user to proxy the call. But the day
> when the Linux kernel NAT will natively support H.323 or SIP, Skype will
> have lost its only advantage... Skype is hype...

Hi all

Oh and I taught Skype was a space rocket that NASA used to send probes 
to mars with :)


Cheers Johnny


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