The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go bankrupt?

[Dotan Cohen]

> Well, in that cases its up to the Linux community to educate them.
>

Some people just don't care until you show them a better product. I'm
one of them.

> I don't mind paying for an application if it works, but what I dislike
> is the limiting of my freedom with regard to the software I use, and
> that is why I dislike the fact that the Skype protocol is bound to the
> one brand of software.

So either reverse engineer it, or provide a better alternative. Better
must include video, voice, chat, file transfers, and Paypal money
transfers at the very least. Oh, and a pony would be nice.

> And because it is limiting the software
> development of Skype to a restrictive OS (which seems to me a very
> dangerous principle), and hardware development is being progressively
> locked in to that one OS, the Linux community has a legitimate
> complaint in regard to the erosion of our freedoms.

Which OS is that? I was unaware that Skype restricts your freedom to
develop software on the OS of your choice.

> Progressively, more and more information is held digitally and
> transferred via the internet.  We are continually in danger that at any
> time access to that information could be restricted even more than it
> is now, by people who are not answerable or accountable to anyone for
> doing so.  Think what would happen if our institutions of learning had
> information restricted in this way.

I agree with you 100% here.

> There is an alternative VoIP protocol to the Skype protocol which is
> "free-as-in-freedom": its called the SIP protocol.  It transfers voice
> messages over the internet and there are a great many service providers
> which use the SIP protocol with added bonus facilities.  For those who
> wish to use VoIP services and use Linux, using SIP is the obvious way
> to assert their wish not to be fettered by restrictions.

Show me a client that has the above features, and can be installed
with click-click-click with no cost to the user and I'll help you
spread the word.

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Dotan Cohen

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