The ultimate goal would be to develop something that pisses off Microsoft to the extent they have a temper tantrum. Some cleverly thought out program where they could do nothing about it.
As far as I'm aware those sort of things have already happened on a small scale. now there just needs to be that one big thing that bashes them over the head with a big wet fish and sending them into retreat mode. Excuse my language. Sent from myMail for iOS Tuesday, 26 April 2016, 18:05 +0100 from duked...@gmail.com <duked...@gmail.com>: >I've found that Discord is another decent alternative. They don't appear to >have a native Linux app just yet, but the web interface works just fine - >and better than Skype's own one does. >https://discordapp.com/ >Although the trouble is convincing others who still use Skype and either >don't notice, or don't mind, it's issues to change over. > >On 26 April 2016 at 17:57, Andrew < zil...@ziltro.com > wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be better to put effort into something more open and >> surveillance-free? >> >> https://tox.chat/ >> >> While all of the Tox clients are classed as 'alpha' and there's still work >> to do, it is quite usable right now. >> >> -- >> >> Andrew. >> >> >> On 26/04/16 17:38, CPK Smithies wrote: >> >>> I just signed the petition "Microsoft: Better Linux support for Skype". >>> I don't know how much hope they have of making any difference. >>> >>> Their goal is to reach 100 signatures - modest enough. They have some >>> way to go. You can read more and sign the petition here: >>> >>> >>> >>> https://www.change.org/p/microsoft-better-linux-support-for-skype?recruiter=532970063&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive >>> >>> Regards to all, >>> CPKS >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-05-03 20:00 >> Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ >> New thread: mailto: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING >> Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR >> >-- >Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-05-03 20:00 >Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ >New thread: mailto: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING >Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-05-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
