Recent Security vulnerability in Skype

En/na Daniel Robitaille ha escrit:
> Sadly, | just have the nagging feeling that EBay didn't buy Skype for
> 2.6 bil$ with the plan of  releasing it with a GPL license.

So you grasp the irony of my comment. :)

For integrity and coherence we should bet on 100% free VoIP applications
as we do with browsers, messaging services, P2P filesharing tools and
CMS's. Starting with the tools we use ourselves.

I speak for myself: I have a Skype launcher in my pannel and I use it
often. But I don't feel comfortable about this, as if I would use Opera,
a MSN clone, Kazaa or Movable Type. I never succeeded configuring
GnomeMeeting (and finding friends to talk with that had succeded
configuring it). I heard about sip when it was in alphbeta stage and I
thought I would wait. Recently I knew about Wengo but still haven't tried...

I would have tried the three free options if I would have got them as
Ubuntu packages working out of the box. They are not yet ready (?) so I
stay with Skype. I'm happy to hear that plans for Dapper are underway.

About Wengo and Ubuntu, what is interesting is that they are developing
and testing the .deb package against Ubuntu. Apparently their .deb
package worked with (Kubuntu?) Hoary but not so well with Breezy (I just
repeat what I've sen in forums, didn't try myself). It seems the problem
for the GNOME-based Ubuntu is that they use Qt libraries.

See http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/wiki/WengoPhoneNG

Ubuntu user(s) have reported here:
http://www.openwengo.com/support/forum/viewtopic.php?p=178#178

Xandros guy asking, "Debian specialist" mentioned:
http://www.openwengo.com/support/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19

Also Linux-related. About OSS/ALSA
http://www.openwengo.com/support/forum/viewtopic.php?t=101

Please help no-geek users like me quitting free but not libre
applications such as Skype.  :)

-- 
Quim Gil      http://interactors.coop | http://desdeamericaconamor.org
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