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

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:06 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I am not sure why so may people here keep on assuming that Ekiga is not
> > comparable to Skype in features. Perhaps it is time all of you guys went
> > to Ekiga web page and took a look.

I certainly will.

> I wonder if the name has anything to do with it. Skype sounds like
> "sky", something clear and without limits, clean. Ekiga sounds to me
> like a grunt, excrement, something dirty. Is this cultural? Do others
> perceive it differently?

To a German speaker it does have such overtones, through words like
"ekelig", "ekelhaft", "ekeln" (disgusting, to be disgusted).

I wonder where the name comes from? Off to the web site... :-)

Regards, K.

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