An alternative to Skype

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:19:55AM -0600, Steve G. wrote:
> I am neither planning nor recommending to boycott GNU or FSF. I also drive
> German and Japanese cars.
> 
> I AM planning to maintain alternatives to them - that is, while my attitude
> in the past was to find ways to use open source solutions even if it meant,
> often, spending days fixing bugs and glitches (using third party patches or
> instructions), I am now going to use MS or Apple solutions instead.
> Specifically, I will use Skype, VMWare and VirtualBox on Win7, iTunes on
> Win7/OS-X, etc. instead of compiling every other week on Linux.

Hmm... diversity. How nice. 

So when VirtualBox gets abandoned by Oracle, or Skype gets abandoned by
Microsoft, where will you move to?

Or when OpenOffice.org gets abandoned by Oracle, where will you move to?
Hmm, maybe LibreOffice?

If you don't want compiling every week, stop using Gentoo (or LFS, or
whatever) and move to a distro that uses some less GCC CPU time.

> 
> When it comes to advocacy, when in the past I was advocating a move to OSS
> products, in the future I would advocate for using products that can work
> with both MS and Linux, or using heterogeneous systems.
> 
> As far as I am concerned, OSS is no longer future-proof, and has to be only
> a of my product mix, not the only one.

Hmmm... that's rich.

RMS says a few words and all of a sudden the whole Free Software
shutters? Kindly explain your logic to us.

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