Palo S. wrote: > > Based on my experiences, Ekiga is a great piece of > software but it is not prepared to replace Skype/ > Yahoo Mess on a larger scale mainly due to NAT issues, > poor non-Linux platform support + some long-term > video and presence related problems.
Skype is working great for me for video and voice calls on Linux machiens (Debian and Ubuntu), all behind some sort of a an ADSL modem and a route firewall by just usin stun. Couldn't get a change to test it on Windows and Mac machines yet though. True that Skype and Yahoo mess are very popular. The best thing in skype is its no-problem working behind firewalls, same for ym but ym also has that photo sharing feature which is a big hit. Considering these, if Ekiga supports Windows as well, just-works behind home routers and gets photo sharing, it will compete with skype and ym. Additionally, when ekiga gets encryption in it (when? it was expected in 3.0), that should give a discrete jump in its popularity, specially among skype users who already do not like the backdoor controversy in skype. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list