Have you tried OpenWengo?
http://www.openwengo.org/
I think is one really good choice instead of Skype, and is Free Software, so
if you and other people help to make "popular" (maybe is not the point),
your friends, wife, and other people can use it and respect their freedom
too.

It's just an idea

Happy near new year!

On Dec 26, 2007 2:24 PM, Ov0 <vlax@???> wrote:

>
> this is not about "popularity", this is about freedom.
>
> skype limits your rights to communicate with people that don`t want to
> use their software for any reason: for example that is not open source.
>
> yahoo, ms, adobe..are "popular" as well, but they don`t respect your
> right to not been dominated in basic aspects of life as communications.
>
>
> Mateusz Slaski wrote:
> > Problem with Skype is that it is very popular software, a lot of people
> > use it.
> > My and my wife's friends are average people using Windows and most
> > popular communication application - Skype and for them using Linux and
> > some open source Skype replacement is some kind of hobby or masochism
> > ;) Now avoid use Skype means unfortunatelly avoid easy way to contact
> > with them.
> > I read little about Skype reverese engineering and I see that hacking is
> > really hard - (code is written in special way to make it really
> > difficult and some people tell that Skype code look like output of
> > /dev/urandom).
> > Maybe override linkage of libraries with new ones for modules as Jaromil
> > wrote is best way if someone knows how to do this.
> >
> > jaromil wrote:
> >> i think you are exagerating a bit here. there are ways to override
> >> linkage of libraries with new ones for modules, for example using
> >> ldconfig environmental variables, pre-linking or static linking.
> >>
> >> regarding the broader issue of VOIP:
> >>
> >> i recommend to start avoiding the use of skype, as it is NOT an open
> >> source technology and as you see we cannot distribute it ready on our
> >> CD: instead included in dyne:II are Kiax and Iaxcomm pre-configured to
> >> use BLASTERISK - at the time being working well for voice, needing
> >> some more development for video.
> >>
> >> my opinion is that development efforts should be driven in the
> >> direction of substituting skype with a really free open source
> >> technology, so that besides having a VOIP system people can build
> >> their own local TELCO instead of being dominated by foreign
> >> corporations owning the communication infrastructure.
> >>
> >> a good start for developers (on all levels, anyone out there wanting
> >> to start a new independent telco for your community?) is the excellent
> >> work people at IT46.se are doing: http://www.it46.se/voip4d/voip4d.php
> >>
> >> ciao
> >>
>
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