Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives

Sam Liddicott sam at liddicott.com
Fri Sep 14 14:06:29 UTC 2012


Ekiga also kept not quite supporting pulse audio for years so it never just
worked for me
On Sep 14, 2012 11:47 AM, "Timo Juhani Lindfors" <timo.lindfors at iki.fi>
wrote:

>
> [ 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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