Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-24 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ilya Konstantinov, from the post of Fri, 21 May: On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:23:25PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: No one forces you to use it. Unless all your friends use it, including the Linux-using ones. Then it prohibits you from communicating with the world. when the need becomes

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-20 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Wednesday 19 May 2004 1:26 pm,Micha Feigin: I don't think gaim has video conferencing support yet. does not. The only free linux solution I know of is gnomemeeting/ohphone which can connect to netmeeting on windows (it exists under W2K although you need to activate it as its not in the

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:18:56AM +, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Wednesday 19 May 2004 1:26 pm,Micha Feigin: I don't think gaim has video conferencing support yet. does not. The only free linux solution I know of is gnomemeeting/ohphone which can connect to netmeeting on windows

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-20 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:12:26PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: Considering they will have to start making money somehow at some point in order to keep from going under (it looks like the company is going after profit and not fun) they will have to add extra features for pay (such as answering

RE: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-20 Thread Tzahi Fadida
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:12:26PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: Considering they will have to start making money somehow at some point in order to keep from going under (it looks like the company is going after profit and not fun) they will have

RE: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-20 Thread Arik Baratz
-Original Message- From: Tzahi Fadida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] there are numerous others that can do the same. the only difference of skype to others is that if you are in some office or some isp that don't provide a real ip(which is not really done anymore since no one will

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-20 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:23:25PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: No one forces you to use it. Unless all your friends use it, including the Linux-using ones. Then it prohibits you from communicating with the world. Skype is not a router it makes use of the application layer. You can write your

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Aaron
I have friend who pays 20 dollars a month unlimited phoning to the US. If you are interested I could check. On the issue of skype. I assume other p2p telephony systems will popup. But if anyone writes for linux I would seem to me a good Idea to support it. The one windows users who is fed up

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 19 May 2004 01:15:05 +, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and yet, I have not decent way to talk with my family abroad using linux/free tools. Any ideas? You can try http://speak-freely.sourceforge.net/ . I used it several

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Noam Rathaus
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 12:59, Ehud Karni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 19 May 2004 01:15:05 +, Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and yet, I have not decent way to talk with my family abroad using linux/free tools. Any ideas? You can try

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Something tells me Skype for Linux is not going to be Hofshi in any way... (judging from their statements on their beloved proprietary protocol) That dosen't worry me at all. What worries me is the license and the technology. In order to get it to work at all, they

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Aaron wrote: About $20 unlimited phoning. (sorry my mailer ate your original message). There are two competing companies vor VoIP to telephone service in the U.S. Packet8 is the cheaper they are $20 a month. You place a propritary box on your network and connect a phone to it. You can then call

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:51:48AM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:01:19PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Because of your requests through Public Mind, Skype has decided to develop a Linux version. It is almost finished and should go into testing in the next few

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:15:05AM +, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Tuesday 18 May 2004 9:51 pm,Ilya Konstantinov: Besides, if their version would have sucky Hebrew support, you couldn't fix it. If it wouldn't have ALSA support, you couldn't fix it. You'd be at their mercy, since by then

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Eran Sandler
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:26, Micha Feigin wrote: I don't think gaim has video conferencing support yet. Actually there is a fork of gaim called gaim-vv (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim-vv). It suppose to add video conferencing support to gaim. Eran

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, May 19, 2004, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux: Packet8 is the cheaper they are $20 a month. You place a propritary box on your network and connect a phone to it. You can then call the U.S. or Canada for no incremental cost over the $20 a month. I wonder

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread linux-il
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Aaron wrote: About $20 unlimited phoning. (sorry my mailer ate your original message). There are two competing companies vor VoIP to telephone service in the U.S. You are assuming people only want to call the US. But there are other countries I want to call to

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-19 Thread Aaron
YOur most probably right, I never bought into this so it I never gave it much thought. Aaron On ד', 2004-05-19 at 17:23, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2004, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux: Packet8 is the cheaper they are $20 a month. You place

RE: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux - an alternative

2004-05-19 Thread Arik Baratz
-Original Message- From: Diego Iastrubni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:15 AM To: Ilya Konstantinov; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux-IL Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux and yet, I have not decent way to talk with my family abroad using linux/free

Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-18 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Hi, A while back, I submitted a request for a Linux version of Skype. Here's the answer I got today. Notice that you can click on a link to add support for this request, although I have no idea if this will speed up the process. FYI -- Forwarded Message -- Thank you for

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-18 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Please Shlomo, post when its available. Tuesday 18 May 2004 4:01 pm,Shlomo Solomon: Hi, A while back, I submitted a request for a Linux version of Skype. Here's the answer I got today. Notice that you can click on a link to add support for this request, although I have no idea if this

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-18 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:01:19PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Because of your requests through Public Mind, Skype has decided to develop a Linux version. It is almost finished and should go into testing in the next few weeks. I will advise when it is done and can be downloaded. Thanks for

Re: Fwd: FW: Skype for Linux

2004-05-18 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Tuesday 18 May 2004 9:51 pm,Ilya Konstantinov: Besides, if their version would have sucky Hebrew support, you couldn't fix it. If it wouldn't have ALSA support, you couldn't fix it. You'd be at their mercy, since by then all your buddies use Skype to chat. and yet, I have not decent way to