-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Grant,
Grant wrote: > Very interesting. It's starting to sound like Skype isn't the devil > after all. Is there any other software that will let me make calls to > regular phone lines from my Linux computer? Free would be better, but > I don't mind proprietary software and per-minute charges if there are > no alternatives. ;-) .. That was my point exactly. Skype isn't the devil at all, at least it isn't if you don't have anything against closed-source commercial software. It was not my intention to cause waves, but it does iritate me when closed-source gets bashed right into the ground purely for being closed source/commercial without actually looking at the product itself. To tell you the truth I would also prefer an open-source alternative, however there are none that work as well on all 3 major platforms (yeah, I have friends who use all and skype works great for all of them). However to answer your question as best I can. Basically all software used to phone fixed lines will have some charge or another I believe. Gnomemeeting apparently does this too (since recently) or at least I heard, but I know too little about that to make a judgement. http://www.gnomemeeting.org/index.php?rub=3&pos=0&faqpage=index.html#AEN21 might shed some light (and links) to things you might want to look at if Skype bothers you ;-) I have used gnomemeeting before though, and although it's a great product it had a load of dependencies which deam it in my eyes as not-worth-the-effort, seeing as I don't have gnome installed. This was actually a reason I reccomend Skype to most users who are looking for such a program as it has very few dependencies, and is easy to configure and use. Hope this helps ;-) Ralph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCqbHWAWKxH5yWMT8RAunMAJ9uOrNP3oU+UVVwUBUoZNk+ih9hCgCePZYI U1R6AHMX2mqKxy9clsgFJsE= =7cSE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
