** Terry Coles <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> [2016-04-28 07:01]: > On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:13:19 BST Keith Edmunds wrote: > > If you want to run Skype, run Windows. If you want a VoIP solution, there > > are many to choose from. > > That's a bit extreme. I have no wish to run Windows, but I do need a VOIP > Client that I can use to contact my relations, particularly my mother who is > deaf and needs to lip-read. > > Since none of my family run Linux, and they all use Skype, I would like to be > able to use it too. I must admit that when Microsoft introduced Skype for > Linux, I was puzzled as to their motives, but was glad that they had. Now > that they have decided to stop supporting it (they never did much anyway), I > can't say I'm surprised. > > It doesn't stop me trying to get them to keep it. ** end quote [Terry Coles]
If I remember correctly the Linux client was introduced before Microsft bought them. I think it has had an update since, but don't quote me on that! The last time I used Skype, which must be a couple of years ago now, I had so much hassle getting a connection that in the end all it was used for was a text based chat to arrange to move the conversation to a Google Hangout. I hadn't used it for a while at that point and only installed it for that conversation. All that said, I have signed to add my support for something that would be a nice option to have. I suspect, though, that it is more likely to show that there isn't enough interest for Microsoft to really bother about. Many Linux users will either be happy to, or prefer to use something else, so it is only the poor people who have to communicate with non technical Windows/Mac users (although I may be over generalising there!). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | https://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Vice Chair, FSB Portsmouth & SE Hampshire Branch | http://www.fsb.org.uk/ ============================================================================= Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Ralls House, Parklands Business Park, Forrest Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6XP -- 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
