On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:38:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Brian Potkin wrote: > > >Depends on what you mean by a 'sane user'. Such a user might want to > >use a product which > > > >(a) is capable of communicating with the rest of the VOIP world, > >(b) doesn't tie you to a particular communications provider, > >(c) supports standard protocols, > >(d) is not closed and proprietary, > >(e) is free. > > > >Skype might be very good technically but it doesn't fulfill any of these > >criteria whereas SIP based software and hardware is available which does. > > > Debian is a religion: it has nothing to do with being sensible or sane.
I'd rather view Debian as a volunteer organisation endeavouring to produce the best free operating system possible. What could be more sane and sensible than that? > You use close and proprietary software, so you shouldn't make that a > requirement:-) Apologies if I misunderstand you here but I hope you are not asserting I use non-free software. If it was absolutely essential and there was no free alternative I would, but as it happens I have not yet had that situation arise. The point I was trying to make was that there is standards based software which is an alternative to Skype and which is well worth investigating. > OTOH anyone with any sense would be concerned if it should prove to be > sending information about them to some stickybeak who plans on making > profit from it. http://www.skype.com/privacy.html is informative. Brian. > > > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 44 161 736 3886 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
