> > I wish we didn't have to be so dependent on skype or maybe if they would > allow open source implementations instead of the API approach. >
I know, sadly the monopoly thrives in Skype. :\ I heard that the communication protocol is encrypted and they won't give the key to it (and I think that giving that specific key to the encryption does not the decrypt messages and voice between users). Up to now, Ekiga <http://www.ekiga.net/> didn't work for me, I was getting a robotic "Hell~ th~ is a tttttt~" instead of "Hello this is a test" in the test call. I tried it a while ago, and I noticed that I had to disable the Video Support, I went in Edit -> Preferencese -> Video > Codecs, and selected only "theora": [image: Screenshot-Ekiga Preferences.png] The audio quality went from really low and ugly to really great and useful :) As far as I know and read, Ekiga <http://ekiga.net> + Zfone<http://zfoneproject.com/>(A PGP-like encryption for softphone) is the open source answer to Skype's monopoly.
<<Screenshot-Ekiga Preferences.png>>
