MS buys Skype - will it support Linux

[Boris shtrasman]

2011/5/14 Mordecha Behar <mordecha.behar at mail.huji.ac.il>

> 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.
>
>
>
Actually ekiga is one of the more popular providers that have a
sipbroker.com integration.

the result you can call some free 800 (US) numbers directly from your sip
account, and any of your friends that use a provider that use sipbroker.


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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