About a year a go I tried Google talk with my brother who was on dial-up
back then, and it was a lot better than Skype. My brother sounded like he
was really plastered with alcohol over Skype, which was very amusing but we
were unable to communicate. Gtalk uses a protocol called Jingle and is quite
popular and easy enough for your average windows user. It's open and many
FOSS clients use it, here's the list upon wikipedia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29>
Unfortunately, I've never tried any of them.


On Dec 27, 2007 4:11 PM, andrea bertolasi <andrea.bertolasi@???>
wrote:

> OpenWengo is just a software that works with the SIP protocol for
> VOIP. It's like Ekiga for example.
> I've tried some time ago to play with theese software to talk to a
> friend of mine: conclusion? they are not just "plug and play" like
> skype.
> Open skype, put your name and password and you can phone to the
> people. With theese softwares you have to select the protocol, the
> audio codecs, the sample rate and you got worse results than simply
> using skype.
>
> That's why I've done a dynebolic module of skype. (by the way: skype
> license let you distribuite it!). Even if I love free software and
> free protocols, I also love "easy living"!!! :-)
>
> (IMHO)
>
>
> ciao a tutti
> Andrea
>
> On Dec 27, 2007 8:48 AM, Luis Alberto Guzman Garcia
> <l.guzman.g@???> wrote:
> > 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.
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