MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> writes:

> - my friends and family having an account on the service to stay in
> touch for free
> - seamless integration into Linux+Android
> - cheap (compared to any "special" offer I have ever received from
> long-distance providers) international calls to phones, especially
> mobile phones, from any country (OK, Europe+N.America+Israel as
> primary targets) to any other country.
>
> If anyone has suggestions, I am curious.

Time to invest development effort into something like ekiga on
Android? How GNOMEish is it?

Does anyone use it? I realize that out of the 3 requirements above the
1st is unlkely to ever be satisfied, at least until the Android part
of the 2nd is done, but what about the 3rd one right now? Does it
work? What are the prices like?

Not that I am ready to drop Skype tomorrow, but what *are* the
potential alternatives?

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Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org