[ubuntu-uk] skype advise please

[alan c]

Graham Binns wrote:
> 2009/1/14 alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>:
>> Can anyone say what the difference is, in terms of what is in Windows,
>> between a paid skype and a free skype? In particular how to migrate
>> across?
> 
> There's no difference. He doesn't need to migrate, just log in on
> Linux; everything useful is held online by Skype.
> 
>> Am I correct in thinking that the financial total - credit or whatever
>> - is probably held online by Skype? I can guess that on the Windows PC
>> there will be such things as contacts, but I do not know enough about
>> skype to know if contacts is also held online.
>>
> 
> Right. There shouldn't be anything to migrate. For example, I use
> Skype from my mobile. Just by logging in I have access to all my Skype
> contacts and can make SkypeOut calls to the people in my phone's
> address book. Skype's servers hold all the juicy stuff.

Thanks, very useful!

OT:
It does bring to mind the warnings that Eben Moglen has in lectures 
such as

Conferència inaugural del IV Congrés Internet, dret i política per 
part del Sr. Eben Moglen, professor de Dret i Història del dret a la 
Facultat de Dret de la Universitat de Colúmbia i president del 
Software Freedom Law Center (Nova York) del dia 2 de juny de 2008
In english:
http://www.truveo.com/Eben-Moglen-IV-Congr%C3%A9s-Internet-dret-i-pol%C3%ADtica/id/1306529471
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alan cocks
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