Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Fri Sep 14 10:46:55 UTC 2012


[ I'm dropping all the extra Cc's, let's try to keep this on
discussion at fsfeurope.org ]

David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> writes:
> Ubuntu included Ekiga in the default install for ages. It works
> perfectly well. They eventually took it out because pretty much no-one
> used it.

Perfectly well? At least with SIP it surely did not work from our
university where only outgoing tcp connections were allowed. I have
another place where the only way out is through a HTTP proxy. Ekiga did
not work there either. And at the same time everyone else was using
Skype and trying to get me to use it too.





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