<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 19:18, Andreas Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aksdb@gmx.de">aksdb@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at 17:32 Marco Ciampa wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 03:25:58PM +0200, Juha Manninen wrote:<br>
>> 2011/12/6 Marco van de Voort <<a href="mailto:marcov@stack.nl">marcov@stack.nl</a>><br>
>> ><br>
>> > You do realize that Skype is now Microsoft?<br>
>> ><br>
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>> and Skype is not the only or dominant choice any more like it used to be.<br>
>> There are alternatives although I have not used them nor I know any details.<br>
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>> Maybe you should put the energy to some competing open source project.<br>
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> Name one, please (it is not sarcasm, I do not know any really working<br>
> well ...)<br>
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</div>If the concern is about VOIP only, then I would say: SIP. SIP has been<br>
there long before Skype and is still the default in most corporate<br>
environments. There are tons of clients supporting SIP (even most<br>
Cisco products). Maybe there are event protocol extensions to handle<br>
video chat.<br>
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I think there are pretty nice combinations of XMPP and SIP around to<br>
combine classical text based messengers with VOIP. AFAIK Google Talk<br>
uses XMPP+SIP. (Btw. XMPP is also older than Skype ... ;-))<br></blockquote><div><br>XMPP can pass also codecs of audio and video, and SIP can pass mime based attachments, so you can make it send texts and html as well :)<br>
The Audio/Video of VoIP (or normal image) is passed by RTP, and both XMPP and SIP are groups of protocols rather only one.<br><br>But imho if we well have free SIP and XMPP servers that support free codecs (such as G711, silk etc..) then we do not need Skype at all.<br>
However we still depends on clients that support such things. Most XMPP clients know how to pass text only. And most SIP based clients know how to pass Audio only.<br><br>My 2 cents :)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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