On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Daniel Dietrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly because of the importance of the issue, lets try to not make this an > ideological debate.
But that's the whole point isn't? Ideology is the whole argument here - that's not necessarily a bad thing but in this case its a trade-off against usability and network participation. If any SIP services actually worked much nicer than Skype I'd be the first to support this move, but they aren't: lack of user discovery, cumbersome configuration, tunneling issues, audio quality, codec incompatibility, crappy chat (or chat on a completely different channel, then: need to exchange two contacts instead of one), awkward group audio chats (rooms vs. click on 'call all') - and this is not even counting the network problems: how many of our partners and clients would actually install a SIP client, get an account somewhere configure and learn things just to talk to us? I wouldn't. > Lets try find solutions suitable for our needs. This might mean a "step by > step" approach. BBB is a nice bridge for those who don't want to configure > their own SIP client themselves. Again: it doesn't survive the ideological test. - Fr. _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
