Re: [LUG] skype: non-free but interesting

[Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 22:25, Kai Hendry wrote:

> I have tried the linux client of Skype, a VoIP client. What's different
> about this and say Gnome meeting is that it seems to punch through a
> NAT and firewalls:
> http://www.mindcontrol.org/~hplus/nat-punch.html

I pick as the difference that this is another of a class of aplications which 
takes an essentially peer to peer process and interposes a central server as 
a requirement.

The author of Speak-Freely announced from his Swiss mountain fastness that he 
saw the creeping ownership of such services as this as a reason to abandon 
development on his tool.


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Adrian Midgley                   Open Source software is better
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