On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:53, Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org wrote:
Hi Alexander,
there's no need for anyone to apologize for anything, at least not from my point of view. Some people have made various suggestions, others have sent their views, no rough languange was used - in other words an entirely civilized discussion.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:42:19PM +0400, Alexander Chemeris wrote:
Regarding my Skype note - for me it's similar to using Altium where I would love to use an open-source app.
I don't want you to stop using it or stop mentioning to use it. I just wanted to state that in the context of an Osmcoom event, I would definitely not want to use it.
As a more practical note: I'm quite sure that the various SIP and H.323 compatible soft-phones as well as hardware/emedded devices are a really good and functional alternative to Skype. I think they are much closer on a functional level to their proprietary alternative than let's say KiCAD or gEDA are to Altium Designer.
When I looked at them some 5 years ago as a VoIP developer, all open-source VoIP tools were in very bad state. Even our one was barely usable in non-ideal situations. May be things got better since that time. I have to review available options again when I get some free time.
-- Regards, Alexander Chemeris.