[Lazarus] Petition to Skype

[Andreas Schneider]

On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at 17:32 Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 03:25:58PM +0200, Juha Manninen wrote:
>> 2011/12/6 Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>
>> >
>> > You do realize that Skype is now Microsoft?
>> >
>> 
>> and Skype is not the only or dominant choice any more like it used to be.
>> There are alternatives although I have not used them nor I know any details.
>> 
>> Maybe you should put the energy to some competing open source project.

> Name one, please (it is not sarcasm, I do not know any really working
> well ...)


If the concern is about VOIP only, then I would say: SIP. SIP has been
there  long  before  Skype  and is still the default in most corporate
environments.  There  are  tons  of  clients supporting SIP (even most
Cisco  products).  Maybe there are event protocol extensions to handle
video chat.

I  think  there are pretty nice combinations of XMPP and SIP around to
combine  classical  text based messengers with VOIP. AFAIK Google Talk
uses XMPP+SIP. (Btw. XMPP is also older than Skype ... ;-))

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Best Regards,
Andreas