This was announced 14th March it seems. Today, I receive a Skype update notification, to take me from v2.0 to v5.0. Coincidence? May be.
I see some problems with GNU SIP Witch: - Doesn't do audio transcoding. This is one of those places where Asterisk shines. One side might be speaking u-law, the other side GSM, and they'll work together nicely. - Not really P2P, though it claims to be. This is where it'd beat Asterisk. At least in terms of setup. Asterisk works fine. The code is [expletive deleted] but it works. And as of 1.8.0 it does ZRTP and TLS (for SIP signalling traffic) so you can do secure calls. (See for example privatewave.com who have a mobile SIP client that does secure calls over 3G data using just this feature.) P. On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:55, Martin Atukunda wrote: > Hi Lug, > > FYI, New project "GNU Free Call" Announced. This could be a skype competitor. > Here is an excerpt from the site / blog entry: > > -- 8< -- > > Our goal is to make GNU Free Call ubiquitous in a manner and level of > usability similar to Skype, that is, usable on all platforms, and directly by > the general public for all manner of secure communication between known and > anonymous parties, but without requiring a central service provider to > register with, without using insecure source secret binary protocols that may > have back-doors, and without having network control points of any kind that > can be exploited or abused by external parties. By doing so as a self > organizing meshed calling network, we further eliminate potential service > control points such as through explicit routing peers even if networks are > isolated in civil emergencies. > > -- >8 -- > > See http://planet.gnu.org/gnutelephony/?p=14 > > - Martin - > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. > _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
