[Linuxtrent] gnomemeeting vs skype
- From: "Marco Ciampa" <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:39:56 +0100
Ecco perché preferisco gnomemeeting a skype...
GnomeMeeting 1.2 and Skype
Damien Sandras 2004-09-09
We are again coding hard on the future 1.2 release of GnomeMeeting.
There will be more internal changes than user-visible changes, but we
are paving the way for SIP.
People are often asking me what I think of Skype. What I think is
pretty clear...
The main problem is not that the program is not Open Source, the
problem is that Skype is locking users into a proprietary protocol.
Would you imagine the Internet with a proprietary equivalent to the HTTP
protocol that only a given client could browse? That's what happens with
Skype. Skype also has a great marketing force, some people even think
that Skype has a superior audio quality. How could Skype have a superior
quality when it is using the same codec (iLBC) than software like
GnomeMeeting while introducing more latency by making calls go through a
3rd party? The only real advantage of Skype is that it is easily going
through any type of NAT, using a 3rd user to proxy the call. But the day
when the Linux kernel NAT will natively support H.323 or SIP, Skype will
have lost its only advantage... Skype is hype...
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Marco Ciampa
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