Yeah, Microsoft purchased Skype. Never really liked the software to begin with. I prefer open communications via SIP, IAX, and/or Asterisk. I do recall Mike Knisely having used Ekiga to make some video calls with his family when he was away. I have typically stuck with voice for my personal exploits. Rob On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Henry Keultjes <hbkeultjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://www.linphone.org/ > > Any one able to share their experience with this? > > Mike Bell and I where having trouble with getting Skype to work on my new > Debian box so we thought of Linphone, installed it and within minutes we had > video from my own camera on the screen. > > We will not go any further until Mike installs his Linphone so I have > someone to go back and forth with. > > Microsoft buying Sky also seems to be a good reason to go with Linphone > since there is reasonable speculation that Microsoft bought Skype to move > the user base to MSN. > > Henry Keultjes > Mansfield Ohio USA > > > > To unsubscribe send to ncolug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in > the Subject field. > To unsubscribe send to ncolug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.