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Eion MacDonald wrote:
Fit for purpose? Well yes it is easy to set up but it does paint you into a corner. Its fit for purpose in the same way a reliable taxi service will get you from a to b on publicly paid for roads so long as you only go to places the taxi driver agrees with. Not going south of the river... Its not VOIP - its VO somebutnomeansall IP. Skype uses the same model that drug dealers use - give it away for free and get em hooked. I do use it myself - but I will never let them have a penny of mine and I would never encourage anyone else to pay for any of their services. The information highway belongs to us all and we should never encourage people trying to own bits of it.On 29/04/2010 17:43, tom wrote:Skype has a lot of proprietary stuff* in it and (as far as I can tell) wont allow you to connect to 'proper' VOIP or SIP* confirmed. That maybe an advantage to my style of work, as the other end of telephone has to use what they can get and an "MS OS" (paid for,or copy) by downloading Skype allows inter country communication. Trying to set up a "VoIP" with non-computer-tech folks in remote countries is easy with Skype. The other end of my folk could do a lot on high tech chemical and gas analysis but know nowt about any computer system - they just use what is available. So Skype is ' fit for purpose'.
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