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Alexander Chemeris alexander.chemeris at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 11:38:48 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:53, Harald Welte <laforge at 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.




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