MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

[Mordecha Behar]

One day I was poking around my desktop and found that Ekiga had come
preinstalled. I fired it up and was dutifully impressed with all the "new
and exciting" features they promoted. (This was about 3 versions ago).
I liked that it loaded up the first time quickly and seamlessly, and walked
me through getting my very own free SIP address.
Then when I tried actually using it I discovered to my chagrin that
everybody I know uses Skype.
My account is still around somewhere, and probably still active, but I have
nothing that I can do with it.
Maybe people will migrate from Skype, but maybe not.

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org>wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
>
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