[GUFSC] GnomeMeeting 1.2 and Skype

[Emerson Ribeiro de Mello]

     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...

Damien Sandras
GnomeMeeting's Author

É só esperar pra ver então !!! :-D


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